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and carted them along, and gradually it got up 

 to bears, lions, tigers, camels, boa-constrictors, 

 alligators, Tom Thumb, hippopotamuses, and 

 the fat woman — in fact, to where it is now. 

 Yes, sir ; P. T. Barnum got the first rudiments 

 of his education from Hackaliah Bayley right 

 here in Somerstown. Elephants and milk have 

 made this town. In fact, we all live on ele- 

 phants and milk." 



" Elephants and milk ! Good gracious, " I 

 exclaimed, '' what a diet ! " 



** Lord, sir," retorted my landlord, *' did 

 you think I meant that we crumbled elephants 

 into milk and ate 'em ? No ; I mean to say 

 that the elephant business and the milk busi- 

 ness are what have built up this place. I've 

 told you what elephants have done for us, and 

 now I'll tell you about milk. There's farmers 

 round here owning a hundred cows apiece. 

 From the little depot of Purdy's you'll pass a 

 mile beyond this, we send eight thousand 

 gallons of milk every day to New York : and it 

 starts from here pure, let me tell you, for we 

 are honest, if we were brought up in the show 

 business. Then right in our neighborhood are 

 two condensed-milk factories, where they use 

 seventeen thousand more. There's twenty- 



