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Show Barnum Had Plugged Holes And Was in the Money When P. T. Barnum, as a young man, left Danbury, Conn., to make his way in the world, he left numerous unpaid bills behind him. To one creditor the imaginative imagi-native showman said with great intensity: "I'll pay you what I owe you as soon as I get rich." The other laughed and eyed the youth disdainfully. "That will be when a sieve holds water," he jeered. But in a few years the master showman was well on the road to success, and with great satisfaction satisfac-tion wrote the man the following note: "Dear Sir: I have fixed that sieve." I 1 |