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Part 3. CHAPTER XI. "COME in," says the woman, and I did.

Part 2. CHAPTER VI. WELL, pretty soon the old man was up and around again, and then he went for Judge Thatcher in the courts to make him give up that money, and he went for me, too, for not sto...

Two or three persons having at different times intimated that if I would write an autobiography they would read it, when they got leisure, I yield at last to this frenzied public demand, and herewi...

Part 5. CHAPTER XXI.

NOTE.--No experience is set down in the following letters which had to be invented.

CHAPTER I. Popular Talk of the Excursion--Programme of the Trip--Duly Ticketed for the Excursion--Defection of the Celebrities CHAPTER II. Grand Preparations--An Imp...

Part 8. CHAPTER XXXVI.

Contents: THE LOVES OF ALONZO FITZ CLARENCE AND ROSANNAH ETHELTON ON THE DECAY OF THE ART OF LYING ABOUT MAGNANIMOUS-INCIDENT LITERATURE PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH THE GREAT REVOLUTION IN PITCAIRN...

I. All the journeyings I had ever done had been purely in the way of business.

I was feeling blithe, almost jocund.

THE TREATY WITH CHINA ITS PROVISIONS EXPLAINED New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868 Every one has read the treaty which has just been concluded between the United States and China.

The author, J. Howard Moore, sent a copy of his book, The Universal Kinship, with a letter in which he said: "Most humorists have no anxiety except to glorify themselves and add substance...

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 2 CHAPTER IV THE sun rose upon a tranquil world, and beamed down upon the peaceful village like a benediction.

My First Literary Venture I was a very smart child at the age of thirteen--an unusually smart child, I thought at the time.

Part 6. CHAPTER XXVI.

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 3 CHAPTER VIII TOM dodged hither and thither through lanes until he was well out of the track of returning scholars, and then fell...

CONTENTS: WHAT PAUL BOURGET THINKS OF US A LITTLE NOTE TO M. PAUL BOURGET WHAT PAUL BOURGET THINKS OF US He reports the American joke correctly.

(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 1. PREFACE The ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are a...

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 6 CHAPTER XXIII AT last the sleepy atmosphere was stirred--and vigorously: the murder trial came on in the court.

Part 9. Chapter XXXII.

CHAPTER I. My Brother appointed Secretary of Nevada--I Envy His Prospective Adventures--Am Appointed Private Secretary Under Him--My Contentment Complete--Packed in One Hour--Dreams and Visions--On...

(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 2. CHAPTER VII MERLIN'S TOWER Inasmuch as I was now the second personage in the Kingdom, as far as political power and authority were conce...

Chapter I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper.

[From an 1869--1st Edition] Part 5. CHAPTER XLI.

(Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 Illustrations taken from an 1880 First Edition * * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS: 1.    PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR 2.    TITIAN'S MOSES 285.  ...

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 5 CHAPTER XVIII THAT was Tom's great secret--the scheme to return home with his brother pirates and attend their own funerals.

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 4 CHAPTER XIII TOM'S mind was made up now.

[From an 1869--1st Edition] Part 2. CHAPTER XI. We are getting foreignized rapidly and with facility.

[From an 1869--1st Edition] Part 3. CHAPTER XXI.

(Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 Illustrations taken from an 1880 First Edition * * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS: 1.    PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR 2.    TITIAN'S MOSES 3.   ...

1873 Part 7. CHAPTER LV.

(Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 Illustrations taken from an 1880 First Edition * * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS: 1.    PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR 2.    TITIAN'S MOSES 3.   ...

1880 Part 7. CHAPTER LXI.

Illustrated by Lester Ralph Translated from the Original Part 1. SATURDAY.--I am almost a whole day old, now.

Part 1. CONTENTS (Entire ebook) Preface 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 Coup...

Illustrated by Lester Ralph Translated from the Original Part 2. SUNDAY.--It is pleasant again, now, and I am happy; but those were heavy days; I do not think of them when I can help it.

Illustrated by Lester Ralph Translated from the Original Part 3. EXTRACT FROM ADAM'S DIARY Perhaps I ought to remember that she is very young, a mere girl and make allo...

(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 9. CHAPTER XLI THE INTERDICT However, my attention was suddenly snatched from such matters; our child began to lose ground again, and we ha...

Part 6. Chapter 26 Under Fire TALK began to run upon the war now, for we were getting down into the upper edge of the former battle-stretch by this time.

1873 Part 4. CHAPTER XXVIII.

Part 2. Chapter V. Tom as a Patrician.

(Samuel L. Clemens) Part 7. CHAPTER XXXII DOWLEY'S HUMILIATION Well, when that cargo arrived toward sunset, Saturday afternoon, I had my hands full to keep the Marc...

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 7 CHAPTER XXVIII THAT night Tom and Huck were ready for their adventure.

CHAPTER I A Tramp over Europe--On the Holsatia--Hamburg--Frankfort-on-the- Main--How it Won its Name--A Lesson in Political Economy--Neatness in Dress--Rhine Legends--"The Knave of Bergen" The Famo...

1880 Part 3. CHAPTER XXI.

1880 Part 2. CHAPTER XI. And sure enough, two or three years afterward, we did hear him again.

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Part 8 CHAPTER XXXII TUESDAY afternoon came, and waned to the twilight.

Part 7. Chapter XXII.

SAMUEL L. CLEMENS Part 2 CHAPTER IX. It is your human environment that makes climate.

(Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 Illustrations taken from an 1880 First Edition * * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS: 1.    PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR 2.    TITIAN'S MOSES 3.    TH...