| Show BARNUM WAS RIGHT the following prospectus of the so called cd california ranching company was pasted as a joke in the windows of an eastern bank extraordinary opportunity we are starting a cat ranch in california each cat will 12 kittens each year the cat skins will sell at soc each m mm 1 can skin cats a day we figure on a net profit of a day to feed the cats we shall start a rat ranch next door with one ir illion rats the rats will breed 12 times as fast as the cats so we will have four rats to feed each day t iv each cat and we will feed the rats the carcasses of the cats after they have been skinned the skins of the cats will ill cost us nothing shares in this epochal enterprise are now selling at ac each but the price will soon go up invest now while the opportunity knocks at your door signed california ranching go co this prospectus was taken so seriously by men with money to invest that it was removed sixty men in good business standing applied for stock during the first birst day edgar james swift how to influence men alen |
