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The Intrusion of JimmyThe Intrusion of Jimmy The main smoking-room of the Strollers' Club had been filling for the last half-hour, and was now nearly full. In many ways, the Strollers', though not the most magnificent, is the pleasantest club in New York. Its ideals are comfort...
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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle RichArcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich The Mausoleum Club stands on the quietest corner of the best residential street in the City. It is a Grecian building of white stone. About it are great elm trees with birdsthe most expensive kind of birdssinging in...
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Love Among the ChickensLove Among the Chickens TO- But For Whose Sympathy and Encouragement This Book Would Never Have Been Written type of dedication. It sounds so weak-minded. But in the case of Love Among the Chickens it is unavoidable. It was not so much that you...
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Indiscretions of ArchieIndiscretions of Archie It wasnt Archies fault really. Its true he went to America and fell in love with Lucille, the daughter of a millionaire hotel proprietor and if he did marry herwell, what else was there to do? From his point of view,...
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WolfvilleWolfville These tales by the Old Cattleman have been submitted to perhaps a dozen people. They have read, criticised, and advised. The advice was good; the criticism just. Some suggested a sketch which might in detail set forth Toffville; there were those who wanted...
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The Relics of General Chasse: A Tale of AntwerpThe Relics of General Chasse: A Tale of AntwerpThat Belgium is now one of the European kingdoms, living by its own laws, resting on its own bottom, with a king and court, palaces and parliament of its own, is known to all the world....
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On Our SelectionOn Our Selection To You "Who Gave Our Country Birth;" to the memory of You whose names, whose giant enterprise, whose deeds of fortitude and daring were never engraved on tablet or tombstone; to You who strove through the silences of the Bush-lands and...
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Wolfville DaysWolfville Days "No, sir, even onder spur an' quirt, my mem'ry can only canter back to one uprisin' of labor in Wolfville; that was printers." At this the Old Cattleman looked unduly sagacious, refreshed himself with a puff or two at his pipe, and...
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The Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in ChaptersThe Hand of Ethelberta: A Comedy in ChaptersThis somewhat frivolous narrative was produced as an interlude between stories of a more sober design, and it was given the sub-title of a comedy to indicatethough not quite accuratelythe aim of the performance. A high degree...
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The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other StoriesThe Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than of 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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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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Alonzo Fitz, and Other StoriesAlonzo Fitz, and Other Stories It was well along in the forenoon of a bitter winter's day. The town of Eastport, in the state of Maine, lay buried under a deep snow that was newly fallen. The customary bustle in the streets was wanting....
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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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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 Surprising Adventures of Baron MunchausenThe Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen Baron Munchausen has certainly been productive of much benefit to the literary world; the numbers of egregious travellers have been such, that they demanded a very Gulliver to surpass them. If Baron de Tott dauntlessly discharged an enormous...
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The Peterkin papersThe Peterkin papers THE first of these stories was accepted by Mr. Howard M. Ticknor for the Young Folks. They were afterwards continued in numbers of the St. Nicholas. A second edition is now printed, containing a new paper, which has never before been...
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Where Angels Fear to TreadWhere Angels Fear to Tread They were all at Charing Cross to see Lilia offPhilip, Harriet, Irma, Mrs. Herriton herself. Even Mrs. Theobald, squired by Mr. Kingcroft, had braved the journey from Yorkshire to bid her only daughter good-bye. Miss Abbott was likewise attended...
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Verses popular and humorousVerses popular and humorousMy acknowledgments of the courtesy of the editors and proprietors of the newspapers in which most of these verses were first published are due and are gratefully discharged on the eve of my departure for England. Chief among them is the...
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Rubáiyát of a Motor CarRubáiyát of a Motor Car1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a...
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