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Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 16:34:06 +0100
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I am doing some work on Sketches New and Old and especially 'A Ghost Stroy'
and
'The Capitoline Venus'. I'd be grateful if someone could give me a quick
run-down
on the 'Petrified Giant' swindle: what and when it was and how Barnum
figured in
it? Or where I can read more about it? Thanks.

Pete M.

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