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The $30,000 Bequest : And Other Stories

By: Mark Twain

... their tidy little wooden house disappear, and two story brick with a cast iron fence in front of it take its place; we should have seen a three globe... ...opinion; and she was a W . C. T . U., with all that that implies of boiler iron virtue and unendurable holiness. But there is was; the pride of riches... ... whole fortune in a purchase of all the railway systems and coal and steel companies in the country on a margin, and she was now trembling, every Sab ... ...don’t make a blunder, now, you own the earth!—sell, sell!” But she set her iron will and lashed it amidships, and said she would hold on for five poin... ... In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse... ...n, half an hour apart, one came across solitary log cabins of the earliest mining days, built by the first gold min ers, the predecessors of the cott... ...t effect. Further: Il ritorno dei Sovrani a Roma 151 Mark Twain ROMA, 24, ore 22,50.—I Sovrani e le Principessine Reali si attendono a Roma domani al... ... 22,50.—I Sovrani e le Principessine Reali si attendono a Roma domani alle ore 15,51. Return of the sovereigns to Rome, you see. Date of the telegram,... ...n 8.30 P .M., by my reckoning. Spettacolli del di 25 TEATRO DELLA PERGOLA—(Ore 20,30)—Opera. BOH‘EME. TEATRO ALFIERI.—Compagnia drammatica Drago—(Ore ...

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