...who ought to know, as my birth-place, and I have always acknowledged and reverenced it accordingly. As however my grandfather happened to be born before...that I can conceive of delights me so much as playing otf one of those dangerous things, and although I have enjoyed more hearty laughs in planning and executing...

...who ought to know, as my birthplace, and I have always acknowledged and reverenced it accordingly. As, however, my grandfather happened to be born before...carry out a practical joke than for anything else 2 MY GENEALOGY. under heaven. In this one particular, as well as in many others, I am almost sorry...

...Barnum was named after his maternal grandfather, and most worthy progenitor, who " would go further, wait longer, work harder, and contrive deeper to carry...practical joke, than for anything else under heaven." In return for the honour conferred on him by having his name so honourably perpetuated, this grandfather...

...including such schemes as " JoiceHeth," the " Feejee Mermaid," and the " Woolly Horse." He says: " My grandfather was decidedly a wag. He was a practical...practical joke, than for anything else under heaven. ... It is said by all who knew him and have knowledge of me, that I am a chip of the old block." He...

...Slark Twain's imitation of hU mother's humor — not an inheritance. The grandfather. Barnum writes, "would go farther, wait longer, work harder and contrive...practical joke, than for anything else under heaven." He played a practical joke on his grandchild (PT Barnum) at birth, by giving him- a deed to five acres...

...and a propensity for practical jokes which the boy never outgrew. Barnum wrote of his grandfather: "He would go farther, wait longer, work harder, and...practical joke, than for anything else under heaven." Barnum admitted the influence of Phineas Taylor's propensity, and throughout his own life he exercised...

...his autobiography that we have here an imitation, not an inheritance. The grandfather, Barnum writes, "would go farther, wait longer, work harder, and contrive...practical joke, than for anything else under heaven." He played a practical joke on his grandchild at birth, by giving him a deed to five acres of worthless...

...and a propensity for practical jokes which the boy never outgrew. Barnum wrote of his grandfather : " He would go farther, wait longer, work harder, and...practical joke, than for anything else under heaven." Barnum admitted the influence of Phineas Taylor's propensity, and throughout his own life he exercised...

...with no lack of design he chose to begin his story this way. The hilarious doings of "Uncle Phin," who would "go farther, wait longer, work harder and contrive...practical joke, than for anything else under heaven," occupy considerable space in his namesake's book; and as he lived to the ripe old age of seventyseven,...

...happened to be born before me, and as it is said by all who knew him and have knowledge of me, thai I am " a chip of the old block," I must record some...practical joke, than for anything else under heaven. la this one particular, as well as in many others, I am almost sorry to say I am his counterpart ;...