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SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
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CONTENTS:
SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
Part 1.
MY WATCH
AN INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE TALE—[Written about 1870.]
POLITICAL ECONOMY
THE JUMPING FROG
[written about 1865]
IN ENGLISH. THEN IN FRENCH. THEN CLAWED BACK INTO A CIVILIZED LANGUAGE ONCE MORE BY PATIENT, UNREMUNERATED TOIL.
THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY [Pronounced Cal-e-va-ras]
THE JUMPING FROG
JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE
[written about 1871]
SPIRIT OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS
SPIRIT OF THE TENNESSEE PRESS
THE STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY
[written about 1865]
THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY
[Written about 1865]
A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE
[written about 1865]
THOSE EVENING BELLS
THOSE ANNUAL BILLS
NIAGARA
[written about 1871]
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
[written about 1865]
TO RAISE POULTRY
[Being a letter written to a Poultry Society that had conferred a complimentary membership upon the author. Written about 1870.]
EXPERIENCE OF THE McWILLIAMSES WITH MEMBRANOUS CROUP
[As related to the author of this book by Mr. McWilliams, a pleasant New York gentleman whom the said author met by chance on a journey.]
MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE
[written about 1865]
HOW THE AUTHOR WAS SOLD IN NEWARK
[written about 1869]
THE OFFICE BORE
[written about 1869]
JOHNNY GREER
THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF THE GREAT BEEF CONTRACT
[written about 1867]
THE UNITED STATES
THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER
The United States in account with the legal representatives of George Fisher, deceased.
DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY
THE JUDGE’S “SPIRITED WOMAN”
INFORMATION WANTED
SOME LEARNED FABLES, FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS IN THREE PARTS
PART FIRST HOW THE ANIMALS OF THE WOOD SENT OUT A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION
SOME LEARNED FABLES FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS PART SECOND HOW THE ANIMALS OF THE WOOD COMPLETED THEIR SCIENTIFIC LABORS
SOME LEARNED FABLES FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS
PART THIRD
MY LATE SENATORIAL SECRETARYSHIP
[written about 1867]
A FASHION ITEM
[written about 1867]
RILEY—NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT
A FINE OLD MAN
SCIENCE V.S. LUCK
[written about 1867]
THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
[written about 1870]
MR. BLOKE’S ITEM
[written about 1865]
A MEDIEVAL ROMANCE [written about 1868]
CHAPTER I. THE SECRET REVEALED.
CHAPTER II. FESTIVITY AND TEARS
CHAPTER III. THE PLOT THICKENS
CHAPTER IV. THE AWFUL REVELATION
CHAPTER V. THE FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE
PETITION CONCERNING COPYRIGHT
TO THE HONORABLE THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
A PARAGRAPH NOT ADDED TO THE PETITION
AFTER-DINNER SPEECH
[AT A FOURTH OF JULY GATHERING, IN LONDON, OF AMERICANS]
LIONIZING MURDERERS
A NEW CRIME
LEGISLATION NEEDED
A CURIOUS DREAM [Written about 1870.]
CONTAINING A MORAL
GONE TO HIS JUST REWARD’
A TRUE STORY
REPEATED WORD FOR WORD AS I HEARD IT—[Written about 1876]
THE SIAMESE TWINS
[Written about 1868.]
SPEECH AT THE SCOTTISH BANQUET IN LONDON
[Written about 1872.]
A GHOST STORY
THE CAPITOLINE VENUS
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
SPEECH ON ACCIDENT INSURANCE
DELIVERED IN HARTFORD, AT A DINNER TO CORNELIUS WALFORD, OF LONDON
JOHN CHINAMAN IN NEW YORK
HOW I EDITED AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER
[Written about 1870.]
THE PETRIFIED MAN
MY BLOODY MASSACRE
THE UNDERTAKER’S CHAT
CONCERNING CHAMBERMAIDS
AURELIA’S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN
[Written about 1865.]
"AFTER” JENKINS
ABOUT BARBERS
"PARTY CRIES” IN IRELAND
THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT RESIGNATION [Written about 1867]
WASHINGTON, December, 1867.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
HONORED AS A CURIOSITY
FIRST INTERVIEW WITH ARTEMUS WARD
[Written about 1870.]
CANNIBALISM IN THE CARS
[Written about 1867.]
THE STRANGER’S NARRATIVE
THE KILLING OF JULIUS CAESAR “LOCALIZED”
[Written about 1865.]
THE WIDOW’S PROTEST
THE SCRIPTURAL PANORAMIST
[Written about 1866.]
CURING A COLD
[Written about 1864]
A CURIOUS PLEASURE EXCURSION
[Published at the time of the “Comet Scare” in the summer of 1874]
ADVERTISEMENT
DEPARTURE OF THE COMET
THE POSTAL SERVICE
THE INHABITANTS OF STARS
A GREAT FORCE OF MISSIONARIES,
THE DOG STAR
A STUPENDOUS VOYAGE
FIRST-CLASS FARE
OLD RAMSHACKLE COMETS
WE CARRY BULLETIN-BOARDS
FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS,
RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR
[Written about 1870.]
A MYSTERIOUS VISIT
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