Mark Twain's Library of HumorCharles L. Webster & Company, 1888 - 707 pages "Now if there is any one class of their authors whom the American people do know rather better than any other, it is the American humorists, from Washington Irving to Bill Nye... We have tried to arrange our Library so as to include passages representative of every period and section." -The Associate Editors in the modern Introduction to Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1888) Mark Twain's Library of Humor (1875) is a collection of short humorous stories compiled by Mark Twain, including his own essays and those of other popular contemporary writers, such as Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ambrose Bierce, and many others. This jacketed hardcover replica of the 1888 edition of Mark Twain's Library of Humor, with the authentic illustrations by E. W. Kemble, is an entertaining and humorous book for book lovers and Mark Twain aficionados. |
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... four customers . Not to run the slightest risk of remark , one boy bought his powder on Monday , the next boy on Tuesday , and so on until the requisite quantity was in our possession . This we put into a keg , and carefully hid in a ...
... four . I sprung out of bed and tore off my jacket , for I heard the Captain feeling his way along the wall to my chamber . I was half undressed by the time he found the knob of the door . " I say , sir , " I cried , do you hear those ...
... four feet in length . turned it slightly . Old Byles gave a groan and lifted his right leg . Another turn ; another groan , and up went the leg again . " What do you raise your leg for ? " asked the doctor . " I can't help it , " said ...
... Four years later he went to Europe and the East , and on his return published his two books of travel- " Nile Notes of a Howadji , " and " The Howadji in Syria , " shortly after followed by a book of American summer travel and sojourn ...
... four times a week , and to have him for my confessor . But it's very wicked to wish to be a Catholic , and it wasn't real much , you know : but somehow I thought so . When I asked him in what velvet he would advise me to have my prayer ...
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