ANECDOTE OF P. T. BARNUM.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 92, 21 March 1877, Page 2

ANECDOTE OF P. T. BARNUM.

That wit a big book that P. T. Berouni wrote stout himself. It is very com* plete, bat there it one little incident which be either forgot to mention, or. which got pyed woe b the forme weet to press. It occurred when the great showman was • young man, aad a resident of this Motion. I He was paying impetuous attention* to • I yoang lady living in Newtown. Being * son of poor but honest parents, he was. obliged to walk over to the village which contained bit admired on tbe Sunday nights he visited her. When there be labored under another and store awkward disadvantage. The young lady's father I conceived • singular and most violentdislike tb the amiable and eabryonieskow* man. Thit necessitated extreme eantion. on the purl of the lover, and htiras re/ial to the emergency as a matter of *e«rse. His ingress to the house waabfa> window on the second loor, which b+ reached by springing from the cover of > msten curb, and catching bold of tbe-ariadow ledge. His egress elected bj hang* ing fall length from the ledge* aad theft dropping on to the cistern cover, ft fill of about sis inches. One Sunday he took with him on the visit a yottag bmb who> bo carries, bis silvered hair hehiadft Danbnry grocery counter. They reached the place, tbe young mio wutoitw himself. It don't teen possible that anybody could be so brutal, out that young matt actually removed the cover of tbe cistern. Then he sat down by the fence and ate currants, and calmly waited for tbe result. P, T finished bit sparking nnd backed oat of the window lie full k'tuth bis band would permit. *'ffbeaV i .ye," be gaepeJ io> a whisper, as he prepared to drop. "•Good-bye* PbAnuy'* she whispered b*ck. Then he let go , and! instantly shot from, sight iota » yawnmg abyss of darkness tod rainwater; and if Ue bad been made of solid iron heated to a white glow, lie could not have created) more of a eommotioQ. in> striking thewater. It is mtfcecesstry to> repeat what Mr Baroom said, both when crawling oat of the cirtem, and daring tbe* eight mile* walk home, but shortly after he btciae * Uniuersalist,— Dnotnry News^.