Show ill f f f I I J I I Barnum's Frankness On one occasion Barnum had an Elephant engaged in plowing on the sloping hill where it could plainly be Been ceen by the passengers on the NewHaven New NewHaven NewHaven Haven and Hartford railroad an agricultural agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural Innovation that he knew would get notice of some sort in every newspaper in the country It was even said that he received letters from farmers far tar and wide asking how much hay one elephant ate and if It were more to plow with an elephant than with horses or oxen His Hi replies were Invariably frank trank and were were of this purport If It you have a large museum In New York and a great railway company company com corn pany party sends trains full tull of ot passengers within eyeshot of othe the performance It will pay and pay well but but if It you have no such Institution then horses or oxen will rove more economical |