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The MajorThe Major Spring had come. Despite the many wet and gusty days which April had thrust in rude challenge upon reluctant May, in the glory of the triumphant sun which flooded the concave blue of heaven and the myriad shaded green of earth, the...
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Black Rock: A Tale of the SelkirksBlack Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks I think I have met Ralph Conner. Indeed, I am sure I haveonce in a canoe on the Red River, once on the Assinaboine, and twice or thrice on the prairies to the West. That was not...
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The Doctor : A Tale of the RockiesThe Doctor : A Tale of the Rockies There were two ways by which one could get to the Old Stone Mill. One, from the sideroad by a lane which, edged with grassy, flower-decked banks, wound between snake fences, along which straggled irregular clumps...
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To Him That Hath: A Tale of the West of TodayTo Him That Hath: A Tale of the West of Today The young men smiled at each other and at their friends on the side lines and proceeded to change courts for the next set, pausing for refreshments on the way. Much too lazy,...
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Glengarry School Days: A Story of Early Days in GlengarryGlengarry School Days: A Story of Early Days in Glengarry The Twentieth school was built of logs hewn on two sides. The cracks were chinked and filled with plaster, which had a curious habit of falling out during the summer months, no one knew...
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Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: A Tale of the Macleod TrailCorporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: A Tale of the Macleod Trail Oh-h-h-h, Cam-er-on! Agony, reproach, entreaty, vibrated in the clear young voice that rang out over the Inverleith grounds. The Scottish line was sagging!that line invincible in two years of International...
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Cap'n EriCap'n Eri CHAPTER I -- A LAMB FOR THE SACRIFICE CHAPTER II -- THE TRAIN COMES IN CHAPTER III --THE COME-OUTERS' MEETING CHAPTER IV -- A PICTURE SENT AND A CABLE TESTED CHAPTER V -- THE WOMAN FROM NANTUCKET CHAPTER VI -- THE SCHOOLHOUSE...
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The Puppet CrownThe Puppet Crown CHAPTER I. THE SCEPTER WHICH WAS A STICK CHAPTER II. THE COUP D'ETAT OF COUSIN JOSEF CHAPTER III. AN EPISODE TEN YEARS AFTER CHAPTER IV. AN ADVENTURE WITH ROYALTY CHAPTER V. BEHIND THE PUPPET BOOTH CHAPTER VI. MADEMOISELLE OF THE VEIL...
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Goldsmith's Friend Abroad AgainGoldsmith's Friend Abroad Again DEAR CHING-FOO: It is all settled, and I am to leave my oppressed and overburdened native land and cross the sea to that noble realm where all are free and all equal, and none reviled or abusedAmerica! America, whose precious...
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1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors Born irreverent, scrawled Mark Twain on a scratch pad, like all other people I have ever known or heard ofI am hoping to remain so while there are any...
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Sketches New and OldSketches New and Old MY WATCH POLITICAL ECONOMY THE JUMPING FROG JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE THE STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE NIAGARA ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS TO RAISE POULTRY EXPERIENCE...
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Those Extraordinary TwinsThose Extraordinary Twins A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no...
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The Mysterious Stranger, and Other StoriesThe Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories Note: The Mysterious Stranger was written in 1898 and never finished. The editors of Twain's Collected Works completed the story prior to publication. At what point in this work Twain left off and where the editor's began is...
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The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in ConnecticutThe Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut I was feeling blithe, almost jocund. I put a match to my cigar, and just then the morning's mail was handed in. The first superscription I glanced at was in a handwriting that sent...
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Some Rambling Notes of an Idle ExcursionSome Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion All the journeyings I had ever done had been purely in the way of business. The pleasant May weather suggested a novelty namely, a trip for pure recreation, the bread-and-butter element left out. The Reverend said he...
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The American ClaimantThe American Claimant CHAPTER III. Mrs. Sellers pronounces the colonel the same old scheming, generous, good-hearted, moonshiny, hopeful, no-account failure he always wasHe takes in Danl and JinnyThe colonel originates Pigs in the CloverHe offers one of his art treasures to propitiate SuggsOne-armed Pete;...
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The Gilded Age: A Tale of TodayThe Gilded Age: A Tale of Today CHAPTER I. Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee LandHe Decides to Remove to Missouri CHAPTER II. He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay CHAPTER III Uncle Daniels Apparition and PrayeR CHAPTER IV The Steamboat Explosion CHAPTER V...
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A Dog's TaleA Dog's Tale My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing....
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The Pursuit of the House-BoatThe Pursuit of the House-BoatThe House-boat of the Associated Shades, formerly located upon the River Styx, as the reader may possibly remember, had been torn from its moorings and navigated out into unknown seas by that vengeful pirate Captain Kidd, aided and abetted by...
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Doctor ThorneDoctor ThorneBefore the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the...
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