THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY by Mark Twain
(First published 1867) THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon...
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A DOG’S TALE by Mark Twain ? I 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...
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A Helpless Situation by Mark Twain Once or twice a year I get a letter of a certain pattern, a pattern that never materially changes, in form and substance, yet I cannot get used to that letter?it...
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