Barnum Sold at Last.
Poor Barnura has himself been sold at last. The Indian girl who had swallowed the snake had been found all ready and quite willing to make a bargain for exhibition of her strange misfortune at New York. The great showman had sent his agent to secure the marvel of Nielwaukee, and likewise a doctor to procure information on the spot, and write the medical account of this phenomenon. The girl, with shrieks and screams, refused all the doctor's attempts to examine her throat, declaring that at the slightest touch the pain became too intense to bear. This roused the doctor's suspicions, and suddenly seizing the girl by the back of the neck with one hand, and grasping her throat with the other, he caused the snake to appear at once, and a very capital specimen of workmanship, in guttapercha, it proved to be ! Of course the laugh against poor Barnum has been universal throughout the States. But he laughs, too, in his turn, and and declares he still can make money in exhibiting the snake alone.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 229, 19 November 1887, Page 3
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180Barnum Sold at Last. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 229, 19 November 1887, Page 3
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