... i i i i n n n n n A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ... ...and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...a noble and beautiful reward by and by in another world, and al though we animals would not go there, to do well and right without reward would give ... ...t the teller of the comic story tells you beforehand that it is one of the funniest things he has ever heard, then tells it with eager delight, and is... ... 169 Mark Twain humorous story form it takes ten minutes, and is about the funniest thing I have ever listened to—as James Whitcomb Riley tells it. He... ... some extent, among those creatures whom we imperti nently call the Lower Animals. For even they have some poor little vanities and foibles, though i... ... or be noticed by the possessor of Power or Conspicuousness; and sometimes animals, born to better things and higher ideals, descend to man’s level in...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of its o...

...Contents THE $30,000 BEQUEST ............................................................................................................................................. 5 A DOG?S TALE ...................................................