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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... sure he deserved to be one . The Admiral's flag was flying , and I soon procured a gimlet from his carefully kept tool - chest . Before long we had the gun in working order . A newspaper lashed to the end of a lath served as a swab to ...
... sure , if we die tor it ! " We turned to with a will , and before nightfall had nearly half the battery over- hauled and ready for service . To keep the artillery dry we stuffed wads of loose hemp into the muz- zles , and fitted wood ...
... sure I took off my cap ; but I know that I hardly pulled the coverlid over me , when " BOOM ! " sounded the first gun of Bailey's Battery . I lay as still as a mouse . In less than two minutes there was another burst of thunder , and ...
... sure , it's nothing very new . But what is new now- adays ? Sally Shrimp has had hers done in emerald , and I know Mrs. Croesus will have crimson for hers , and those peo- ple who sit next us in church ( I wonder 36 MARK TWAIN'S LIBRARY ...
... sure that I understood much of what he said - how should I ? -but it was very beautiful . Don't laugh , Carrie , but there was one thing I did understand , and which , as it came pretty often , quite helped me through : it was , " Dear ...
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