P. T. Barnum：Struggles and Triumphs, Additional Excerpt 60

The least deserving of all my efforts in the show line was the one which introduced me to the business; a scheme in no sense of my own devising; one which had been sometime before the public and which had so many vouchers for its genuineness that at the time of taking possession of it I honestly believed it to be genuine; something, too, which, as I have said, I did not seek, but which by accident came in my way and seemed almost to compel my agency--such was the “Joice Heth” exhibition which first brought me forward as a showman.

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