Life of P.T. Barnum

Those who peruse this volume will see that my career
has been truly a checkered one. I have been a farmer's
boy and a merchant, a clerk and a manager, a showman
and a bank-president. I have been in jails and in palaces;
have known poverty and abundance ; have traveled over
a large portion of two Continents ; have encountered all
varieties of men, have seen every phase of human character
and I have on several occasions been in imminent
personal peril.