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 showman said with great intensity ill pay you what I 1 owe you as soon as I 1 get rich the other laughed and eyed the youth disdainfully that ww will be when a sieve holds wa water ter he jeered but in a few years the master showman was well on the road to success and with great satisfaction wrote the man the following note S dear sir I 1 have fixed that sieve |