| Show his ardor cooled whon when P T barnum was a young man he paid attentions to a young lady in newtown the young ladys father conceived a singular and most violent dislike to the amiable showman this necessitated extreme caution on the part of the lover his ingress to the house was by a window on the second floor which ho he reached by springing from the cover of a cistern curb and catching hold of the window ledge his egress waa was effected by hanging full length from the ledge and then dropping to the cistern cover covers a fall of about six inches one sunday he took with him on tb the e visit a young man they reached the place places the young lady saw baw the signal opened the window and aud the famous barnum sprang uit ulf into bliss the young man was vas to amuse himself about the tife village until the hour of departure it beem egem anybody could be so brutal but but that young man mau actually removed the cove cover of the cie cle cistern tern P 1 T blui finished shed his sparking and backed out olit of the window the full fuli length his hla hands would permit then he lip let go and instantly shot from sight eight into inton a yawning abyss of darkness and rain water it is not necessary to repeat what mr barnum said both when crawling out of the cistern and during the eight bight miles walk home |
