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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...the poor beast and struggling victim of the fatal bowl. A grand temperance revival was got up, and after some rousing speeches had been made the chair... ...chine did not do both capitals and lower case (as now), but only capitals. Gothic capitals they were, and sufficiently ugly. I remember the first lett... ... preserve his aus terity, I would drive him off the door step.) (From the London Saturday Review .) REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS The Innocents Abroad. A Boo... ...VIEWS OF NEW BOOKS The Innocents Abroad. A Book of Travels. By Mark Twain. London: Hotten, publisher. 1870. LORD M ACAULAY DIED TOO SOON. We never ... ...er we shall go in there for to look the interior. Admire this master piece gothic architecture’s. The chasing of all they figures is astonishing’ inde... ...hall go in there for to look the interior. Admire this master piece gothic architecture’s. The chasing of all they figures is astonishing’ indeed. The... ... itself apart like a derrick; so I think it is a reptile, though it may be architecture. I was afraid of it at first, and started to run every time it...

...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 it...

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