The Writings of Mark Twain: see Old Catalog -. 23. The man that corrupted Hadleyburg and other essays and storiesAmerican Publishing Company, 1894 |
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... Landing , on the Missouri side of the Mississippi , half a day's journey , per steamboat , below St. Louis . In 1830 it was a snug little collection of modest one and two - story frame dwellings whose white- washed exteriors were almost ...
... Landing , on the Missouri side of the Mississippi , half a day's journey , per steamboat , below St. Louis . In 1830 it was a snug little collection of modest one and two - story frame dwellings whose white- washed exteriors were almost ...
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... Landing . On a chief corner stood a lofty unpainted pole wreathed from top to bottom with tin pots and pans and cups , the chief tinmonger's noisy notice to the world ( when the wind blew ) that his shop was on hand for business at that ...
... Landing . On a chief corner stood a lofty unpainted pole wreathed from top to bottom with tin pots and pans and cups , the chief tinmonger's noisy notice to the world ( when the wind blew ) that his shop was on hand for business at that ...
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... Landing was a slaveholding town , with a rich slave - worked grain and pork country back of it . The town was sleepy and comfortable and con- tented . It was fifty years old , and was growing slowly very slowly , in fact , but still it ...
... Landing was a slaveholding town , with a rich slave - worked grain and pork country back of it . The town was sleepy and comfortable and con- tented . It was fifty years old , and was growing slowly very slowly , in fact , but still it ...
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... Landing . But he made his fatal remark the first day he spent in the village , and it " gaged " him . He had just made the acquaintance of a group of citizens when an invisible dog began to yelp and snarl and howl and make himself very ...
... Landing . But he made his fatal remark the first day he spent in the village , and it " gaged " him . He had just made the acquaintance of a group of citizens when an invisible dog began to yelp and snarl and howl and make himself very ...
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... Landing was to steal apples , peaches , and melons from the farmers ' fruit wagons , mainly on account of the risk they ran of getting their heads laid open with the butt of the farmer's whip . was a distinguished adept at these thefts ...
... Landing was to steal apples , peaches , and melons from the farmers ' fruit wagons , mainly on account of the risk they ran of getting their heads laid open with the butt of the farmer's whip . was a distinguished adept at these thefts ...
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Página 48 - TRAINING is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond ; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Página 12 - ... pots in which grew a breed of geranium whose spread of intensely red blossoms accented the prevailing pink tint of the rose-clad house-front like an explosion of flame. When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there — in sunny weather — stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose.
Página 30 - Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
Página 111 - For he's a jolly good fellow, For he's a jolly good fellow; For he's a jolly good fellow, Which nobody can deny!
Página 19 - Adam was but human — this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent ; then he would have eaten the serpent.
Página 89 - Why were niggers and whites made? What crime did the uncreated first nigger commit that the curse of birth was decreed for him? And why is this awful difference made between white and black? . . . How hard the nigger's fate seems, this morning! — yet until last night such a thought never entered my head.
Página 158 - If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Página 230 - I had a sufficiently hard time with that tale, because it changed itself from a farce to a tragedy while I was going along with it — a most embarrassing circumstance. But what was a great deal worse was, that it was not one story, but two stories tangled together; and they obstructed and interrupted each other at every turn and created no end of confusion and annoyance.
Página 233 - I must simply give her the grand bounce. It grieved me to do it, for after associating with her so much I had come to kind of like her after a fashion, notwithstanding she was such an ass and said such stupid, irritating things and was so nauseatingly sentimental. Still it had to be done. So, at the top of Chapter...
Página 11 - ... plants and terra-cotta pots in which grew a breed of geranium whose spread of intensely red blossoms accented the prevailing pink tint of the rose-clad house-front like an explosion of flame. When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there — in...