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Moments With MARK TWAIN CONTENTS FOREWORD FROM “SKETCHES NEW AND OLD” (1865–67)

Answers to Correspondents How I Edited an Agricultural Paper

FROM “THE INNOCENTS ABROAD” (1867–68)

On Keeping a Journal The “Quaker City” in a Storm The Beautiful Stranger Tangier American Beauties An Early Memory At the Ambrosian Library Our Need of Repose Venice At Pisa Christian Persuasion Taking It Out of the Guides A Surfeit of Art At Pompeii Fame Athens from the Acropolis Constantinople Turkish Journalism The Camel At Noah’s Tomb Damascus At Banias A Healer in Palestine The Bible Galilee at Night Distance in the East A Pleasant Incident Sacred Marvels At Adam’s Grave The Wandering Jew Bedouins A Smitten Land The Sphinx Memories of the Pilgrimage

FROM “ROUGHING IT”

Starting West (1870–71) George Bemis and “The Allen” The Overland Stage Morning on the Plains The Cayote The Pony Rider Indian Country At the Summit of the Rockies Incidents by the Way Mormon Beauties The Alkali Desert Arrival in Carson City Lake Tahoe Selling Out a Mine Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral An Abandoned Town A Hawaiian Temple A Hawaiian Statesman Hawaiian Religion The Crater of Haleakala

FROM “THE GILDED AGE” (1873)

Colonel Seller’s Great Idea Colonel Sellers Lets Himself Out

FROM “ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER” (1874–5)

A Speculation in Whitewash Tom Falls in Love Huck The Pirates’ Island Tom Learns to Smoke

FROM “THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT” (1878)

Describing an Elephant

FROM “A TRAMP ABROAD” (1878–9)

Wagner Midnight Entertainment Foreign Quotations Reflections on the Ant Foreign Quotations Again The Jungfrau Climbing the Gemmi Pass Descent of Gemmi Pass Alp Climbing The Old Masters

FROM “LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI” (1874–5)

The Permanent Ambition First Lessons in Piloting Perplexing Lessons A Test of Courage

FROM “THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER” (1877–80)

Births of High and Low Degree The Canty Home London Bridge Tom Canty, King The Little King in Prison Tom Canty the First Tom Is Recognized

FROM “THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN” (1876–83)

Huck and Nigger Jim[3] Start on their Long Drift The Grangerford-Shepherdson Feud[4]

FROM “A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT” (1886–7)

Meeting the Yankee The Stranger’s History The Round Table[7] The Yankee Reflects Perfect Government Maids in Distress A Knight’s Average Sixth Century Kingdoms Nature Conscience The German Tongue[8] Government by the People Prophecy Hard Work Still Hope The Human Race The King in Slavery[9]

FROM “RAMBLING NOTES OF AN IDLE EXCURSION” (1877)

What We Saw in Bermuda

FROM “PUDD’NHEAD WILSON’S CALENDAR” (1892–3) FROM “THE PRIVATE HISTORY OF A CAMPAIGN THAT FAILED” (1885)

The Marion Rangers

FROM “THE PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC”

Joan The Fairy Tree L’Arbre Fée de Bourlemont. Joan Before Rheims Joan’s Reward

FROM “SAINT JOAN OF ARC” (1899) FROM “FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR” Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar (1896–7)

Art Italian Cigars

FROM “CONCERNING THE JEWS” (1898)

The Human Being The Immortal Race

FROM “CHRISTIAN SCIENCE” (1898)

The C. S. Healer

FROM “ITALIAN WITHOUT A MASTER” (1903)

The Home Product The Charm of Uncertainty

FROM “EVE’S DIARY” (1905)

Her Chief Desire At Eve’s Grave William Dean Howells (1905)

MISCELLANEOUS (1905–9)

Making the Oyster The Fatality of Sequence Life’s Turning Point Close of Seventieth Birthday Speech The Future Life Religion

FROM “THE DEATH OF JEAN” (1909) FROM “ONE OF HIS LATEST MEMORANDA” (1909)

The Impartial Friend