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Sketches New and Old

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Literature Society & culture Short Stories Humour American Literature

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1. Front matter 2. MY WATCH 3. POLITICAL ECONOMY 4. THE JUMPING FROG 5. JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE 6. THE STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY 7. THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY 8. A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE 9. NIAGARA 10. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS 11. TO RAISE POULTRY 12. EXPERIENCE OF THE McWILLIAMSES WITH MEMBRANOUS CROUP 13. MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE 14. HOW THE AUTHOR WAS SOLD IN NEWARK 15. THE OFFICE BORE 16. JOHNNY GREER 17. THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF THE GREAT BEEF CONTRACT 18. THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER 19. DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY 20. THE JUDGE’S “SPIRITED WOMAN”21. INFORMATION WANTED 22. SOME LEARNED FABLES, FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS IN THREE PARTS 23. MY LATE SENATORIAL SECRETARYSHIP 24. A FASHION ITEM 25. RILEY—NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT 26. A FINE OLD MAN 27. SCIENCE V.S. LUCK 28. THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 29. MR. BLOKE’S ITEM 30. A MEDIEVAL ROMANCE [written about 1868]31. CHAPTER I. THE SECRET REVEALED.32. CHAPTER II. FESTIVITY AND TEARS 33. CHAPTER III. THE PLOT THICKENS 34. CHAPTER IV. THE AWFUL REVELATION 35. CHAPTER V. THE FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE 36. PETITION CONCERNING COPYRIGHT 37. AFTER-DINNER SPEECH 38. LIONIZING MURDERERS 39. A NEW CRIME 40. A CURIOUS DREAM [Written about 1870.]41. A TRUE STORY 42. THE SIAMESE TWINS 43. SPEECH AT THE SCOTTISH BANQUET IN LONDON 44. A GHOST STORY 45. CHAPTER I.46. CHAPTER II.47. CHAPTER III.48. CHAPTER IV.49. CHAPTER V.50. CHAPTER VI.51. SPEECH ON ACCIDENT INSURANCE 52. JOHN CHINAMAN IN NEW YORK 53. HOW I EDITED AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER 54. THE PETRIFIED MAN 55. MY BLOODY MASSACRE 56. THE UNDERTAKER’S CHAT 57. CONCERNING CHAMBERMAIDS 58. AURELIA’S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN 59. "AFTER” JENKINS 60. ABOUT BARBERS 61. "PARTY CRIES” IN IRELAND 62. THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT RESIGNATION [Written about 1867]63. HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF 64. HONORED AS A CURIOSITY 65. FIRST INTERVIEW WITH ARTEMUS WARD 66. CANNIBALISM IN THE CARS 67. THE KILLING OF JULIUS CAESAR “LOCALIZED”68. THE WIDOW’S PROTEST 69. THE SCRIPTURAL PANORAMIST 70. CURING A COLD 71. A CURIOUS PLEASURE EXCURSION 72. RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR 73. A MYSTERIOUS VISIT

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