Note 3 — Chapter II · GROWING PAINS
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It is interesting in this connection that during the late war a spiritual medium visited Mr. Leonidas Westervelt, a collector of material on Barnum, with the information that she had been in communication with the showman. His spirit told the medium: “Look out for the Germans. Remember, the first man who cheated me was a German.” The first man who cheated Barnum was his grandfather; but he doubtless forgot that in the harmony of his extra-mundane existence.