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Mark Twain's sketches, new and old

now first published in complete form

Twain, Mark (1835-1910)

MY WATCH. AN INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE TALE.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

THE “JUMPING FROG.”

JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE.

STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY.

THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY.

A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE.

Answers to Correspondents.

TO RAISE POULTRY.

EXPERIENCE OF THE McWILLIAMSES WITH MEMBRANOUS CROUP.

MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE.

How the Author was Sold in Newark.

THE OFFICE BORE.

THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF THE GREAT BEEF CONTRACT.

THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER.

DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY.

THE JUDGE'S “SPIRITED WOMAN.”

INFORMATION WANTED.

SOME LEARNED FABLES, FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS.

MY LATE SENATORIAL SECRETARYSHIP.

A Fashion Item.

RILEY—NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT.

A FINE OLD MAN.

Science vs. Luck.

THE KILLING OF JULIUS CÆSAR “LOCALIZED.”

THE WIDOW'S PROTEST.

MR.BLIIKE'S ITEM.

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A MEDIÆVAL ROMANCE.

1.

CHAPTER I. THE SECRET REVEALED.

2.

CHAPTER II. FESTIVITY AND TEARS.

3.

CHAPTER III. THE PLOT THICKENS.

4.

CHAPTER IV. THE AWFUL REVELATION.

5.

CHAPTER V. THE FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE.

PETITION CONCERNING COPYRIGHT.

AFTER-DINNER SPEECH.

LIONISING MURDERERS.

A NEW CRIME. LEGISLATION NEEDED.

A CURIOUS DREAM. CONTAINING A MORAL.

THE SIAMESE TWINS.

SPEECH AT THE SCOTTISH BANQUET IN LONDON.

THE CAPITOLINE VENUS.

SPEECH ON ACCIDENT INSURANCE.

JOHN CHINAMAN IN NEW YORK.

HOW I EDITED AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER

THE PETRIFIED MAN.

MY BLOODY MASSACRE.

THE UNDERTAKER'S CHAT.

CONCERNING CHAMBERMAIDS.

AURELIA'S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN.

“AFTER” JENKINS.

“PARTY CRIES” IN IRELAND.

THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT RESIGNATION.

History repeats itself.

HONOURED AS A CURIOSITY.

THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.

THE “BLIND LETTER” DEPARTMENT, LONDON P. O.

FIRST INTERVIEW WITH ARTEMUS WARD.

CANNIBALISM IN THE CARS.

The Scriptural Panoramist.

FROM “HOSPITAL DAYS.”

A CURIOUS PLEASURE EXCURSION.

RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR.

A MYSTERIOUS VISIT.

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[ILLUSTRATION] [Description: 503EAF. Frontispiece image of a manuscript folder filled with papers and embossed with the initials M.T., resting against a stack of books. The folder is in the center of the image and is surrounded by a parade of motley figures that inhabit the pages of Twain stories.]