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CHAPTER XXVII

. A PROSPEROUS EXILE.

His Successful Pupil--Making Many Friends in London--Acquaintance with Thackeray--A Comedy of Errors in a German Custom House--Aristocratic Patronage at Fashionable Resorts--Barnum's Impressions of Holland and the Dutch

## CHAPTER XXVIII . HOME AGAIN.

A Jolly Voyage--Mock Trial on Shipboard--Barnum on Trial for His Life--Discomfited Witnesses and a Triumphant Prisoner--Fair Weather Friends--The Burning of Iranistan

## CHAPTER XXIX . THE ART OF MONEY GETTING.

The Lecture Field--Success--Cambridge--Oxford--An Unique Entertainment--Barnum Equal to the Occasion--Invited to Stay a Week

## CHAPTER XXX . AN ENTERPRISING ENGLISHMAN.

A New Friend--Dinner to Tom Thumb and Commodore Nutt--Measuring the Giant--The Two Engines

## CHAPTER XXXI . AT HOME AGAIN.

The Clock Debts Paid--The Museum once more under Barnum's Management--Enthusiastic Reception--His Speech--Two Poems

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