BARNUM'S GREAT JOKE. The late P. T. Barnum had a keel) sense of humour, and delighted to play a practical joke. Keene, ttie groat American trageian, was playing "Richard TIT." in San Francisco at the same time as (lie Only ami Original Greatest Show on Earth" was in the city. One night, when the well-known sentence was littered, "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for. a horse!" out from the rings there issued forlh a quadruped that struck the audience dumb—a veritable, living skeleton, with sprung knees and Btaring ribs striped with all the colours of the rainbow. A large card, bearing the legend, "How's that, sonny? P. 'V. Barnum," was fastened above the animal's head. It was the best "ad." "P.T.'* ever Issued; but It cost him hundreds of dollnv» to ",»q"<irc" ihirnts.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1915, Page 9 (Supplement)
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134Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 Taranaki Daily News, 11 December 1915, Page 9 (Supplement)
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