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...mself on the bench thinking himself as a more worldly version of Huckleberry Finn. Looking down at the waters and the small fishing crafts that were t... ... Moldavia to the characteristics of albino frogs, myriad owls, and Henry and William James. Was the present moment best celebrated in thought and cont...

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... Nineteenth Century edition of Mark Twain‘s The Adven tures of Huckleberry Finn . This publication of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckle berry... ...ctronic transmission, in any way. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazl... ...niversity is an equal opportunity University. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) BY MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Clemens) NOTICE Pers... ...cters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding. THE AUTHOR. HUCKLEBERRY FINN SCENE: T HE M ISSISSIPPI V ALLEY TIME: F ORTY TO FIFTY YEARS AGO... ...shiny eyes, HUCKLEBERRY FINN 40 and says: “What might your name be?” “Sarah Williams.” “Where ‘bouts do you live? In this neighborhood?’ “No’m. In Ho... ...e. Pretty soon she says, “What did you say your name was, honey?” “M — Mary Williams.” Somehow it didn’t seem to me that I said it was Mary before, s... ...you said it was Sarah when you first come in?” “Oh, yes’m, I did. Sarah Mary Williams. Sarah’s my first name. Some calls me Sarah, some calls me Mary.... ... other things just to make certain. Now trot along to your uncle, Sarah Mary Williams George Elexander Peters, and if you get into trouble you send wo... ...n’t seen him since they was boys together — and hadn’t ever seen his brother William at all — that’s the deef and dumb one — William ain’t more than ...

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...The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare The Pennsylvania State University s Electronic Classics... ...s an equal opportunity university. The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...lectronic transmission, in any way. The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty ... ... we ll to the river: there, My music playing far off, I will betray Tawny-finn d fishes; my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw...

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...AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER ..................................................................................................................... 135 WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS ............................................................................................................................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ..................................................

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....................................................... ................. 135 WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS ......................................................... ...cataract of bright yellow flowers—I can’t think of their name. The vase of William the Conqueror. We put his name on it and his accession date, 1066. ... ... started from that and measured off twenty one feet of the road, and drove William Rufus’s state; then thirteen feet and drove the first Henry’s stake... ...nd term of service. We choose the whale for several reasons: its name and William’s begin with the same letter; it is the biggest fish that swims, an... ...lliam’s begin with the same letter; it is the biggest fish that swims, and William is the most conspicuous figure in English his tory in the way of a... ...ay after noon, aged 72 years. The deceased was a sister of “Huckle berry Finn,” one of the famous characters in Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer . She had be... ...ccasion to remember him after he had been dead a week. “Injun Joe,” “Jimmy Finn,” and “General Gaines” were prominent and very intemperate ne’er do we...

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...once. I am too excited to go to you. Yours G This was addressed to one Mrs Finn, a lady as to whom chronicles have been written, and who has been know... ...ld put on her carriage gar- ments and get herself to Carlton T errace, Mrs Finn was there. ‘Well, my dear, how do you think it’s all settled at last?’... ... have some one friend to whom we tell everything, and with the Duchess Mrs Finn was that one friend. ‘Is the Duke to be Prime Minister?’ ‘How on earth... ...ows older.’ ‘Politics with the Duke have been simple patriotism,’ said Mrs Finn. ‘The patriotism may remain, my dear, but not the sim- plicity. I don’... ...se in what I say; but as far as I can see, it is the man’s character.’ ‘Mr Finn will come in, of course,’ said the Duchess. ‘Mr Finn will be like the ... ... ‘And he has had the dinner sent in from a shop.’ ‘Why couldn’t he let Mrs Williams do it?’ As he said this, the tone of his voice for the first time ...

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...e not generally known, perhaps, that among ignorant seamen, Philanders, or Finns, as they are more commonly called, are regarded with peculiar superst... ...made to recent events, as could be attrib- uted to no other cause than the Finn’s omen. For my own part, what had lately come to pass was not without ... ...ve only to superstitious fears; and when, in apparent contradiction to the Finn’s prophecy, the sick men rallied a little, they began to recover their... ... the basket. The first thing lighted upon was a large vial, labelled— ”For William —rub well in.” This vial certainly had a spirituous smell; and upon... ...sm, the very suddenness of the change has but indi- cated its unsoundness. Williams, the martyr of Erromanga, relates an instance where the inhabitant... ...land, was willing to affirm his settled intention of re- maining for life. William was therefore in a sad way. He told us that he might have married t...

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...ory which details some passages in the life of an ignorant village boy, Huck Finn, son of the town drunk ard of my time out west, there. He has run a... ...airo without knowing it. By and by they begin to suspect the truth, and Huck Finn is persuaded to end the dismal suspense by swimming down to a huge r... ...a leaning over it, ‘yes, it is my own lamented darling, my poor lost Charles William Allbright deceased,’ says he,—for he could curl his tongue around... ...nd we never see him again in this life, poor old suffering soul, nor Charles William neither.” “Who was shedding tears?” says Bob; “was it Allbright o... ... to say, so I just says— Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 26 “Charles William Allbright, sir.” Then they roared—the whole crowd; and I was migh... ... humor. When they got done laughing, Davy says— “It won’t hardly do, Charles William. You couldn’t have growed this much in five year, and you was a b... ...e gang plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: “James, or William, one of you push that plank forward, please;” but put the mate in... ...once stood in its neighborhood. A citizen asked, “Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard, was burned to death in the calaboose?” Observe, ... ...efiled, through lapse of time and the help of the bad memories of men. Jimmy Finn was not burned in the calaboose, but died a natural death in a tan v...

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...l, the way he’s always done when he was ashamed of a person, and says: “Huck Finn, do you mean to tell me you don’t know what a crusade is?” “No,” say... ...d with them when I mayn’t ever have any occasion to use ‘em. There was Lance Williams, he learned how to talk Choctaw here till one come and dug his g... ... him to —” “Oh, shucks! you don’t know enough to come in when it rains, Huck Finn. It ain’t a farm, it’s entirely different. You see, it’s like this. ... ...!” says Tom. “I don’t want to ar gue any more with people like you and Huck Finn, that’s always wandering from the subject, and ain’t got any more se... ...avated and disgusted. He says: “Well, if I was such a numbskull as you, Huck Finn, I would jump over. Seen it on the map! Huck Finn, did you reckon th... ...itude, and we can drop down and look at its number, and —” “Oh, shucks, Huck Finn, I never see such a lunkhead as you. Did you s’pose there’s meridian...

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...riences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an indi vidual —... ... hero. Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard. Huckleberry was cordially hated and dread... ...n you going to try the cat?” “To night. I reckon they’ll come after old Hoss Williams to night.” “But they buried him Saturday. Didn’t they get him Sa... ... of the school house. He instantly said: “I stopped to talk with Huckleberry finn! ” The master’s pulse stood still, and he stared helplessly. The buz... ...nd. The master said: “You — you did what?” “Stopped to talk with Huckleberry Finn.” There was no mistaking the words. “Thomas Sawyer, this is the most... ...d this matter inwardly. Then Tom whispered: “Say, Hucky — do you reckon Hoss Williams hears us talk ing?” “O’ course he does. Least his sperrit does.... ...e does. Least his sperrit does.” Tom, after a pause: “I wish I’d said Mister Williams. But I never meant any harm. Everybody calls him Hoss.” “A body ... ...ty. All at once the doctor flung himself free, seized the heavy headboard of Williams’ grave and felled Potter to the earth with it — and in the same ... ...mptuous smile flitted across Injun Joe’s face. “Were you anywhere near Horse Williams’ grave?” “Yes, sir.” “Speak up — just a trifle louder. How near ...

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...rder-blanks. But the older people, Yankees as well as Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Canucks, had settled into submission to poverty. They were peasants,... ...was the one democrat in town. He called both Lyman Cass the miller and the Finn home- steader from Lost Lake by their first names. He was known as “Th... ...lted to blow on them, to cry disinterestedly. A family of recently arrived Finns were camped in an abandoned stable. A man of eighty was picking up lu... ...minutes past five the entire town was as flat as Babylon. Erect in a black William and Mary chair against gray and speckly-brown volumes of sermons an... ...ing by monorail, at the end of the day, into a city more charming than any William Morris Utopia—music, a university, clubs for loafers like me. (Lord... ...ny trouble with maids; see how Oscarina stays on.” Between incumbencies of Finn maids from the North Woods, Germans from the prairies, occasional Swed...

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...d. They have been already given to the public, by my late lamented friend, William Erskine, Esq. (afterwards Lord Kinneder), when reviewing the ‘Tales... ...world ran after her, but she wore widow’s mourn- ing all her life for poor William, for they were betrothed though not married, and died in — I cannot... ... long main- tained themselves under Nigel W averley, elder brother of that William whose fate Aunt Rachel commemorated. Through these scenes it was th... ... for his officious- ness. Nay, it was even said, that at the arrest of Sir William Wyndham, the leader of the Tory party, a letter from Sir Everard wa... ... I mounted in Old Palace Yard —all Whigs and Roundheads every man of them, Williamites and Hanover rats.’ The next day Mr. Pembroke again called on th... ...us, the Mac-Couls, though tracing their descent from Comhal, the father of Finn or Fingal, were a sort of Gibeonites, or hereditary servants to the St...

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...more effectively into another, a greater, and more satisfac- tory one. The Finn or the Pole, who has hitherto been a rather reluctant member of the sy... ...ywhere. They seemed to give a raison d’être for mankind. It is the Emperor William and the Czar Ferdinand who have betrayed not only humanity but thei...

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...d to scare Nicodemus to death, and explained how he was going to do it. He had a noble new skeleton—the skeleton of the late and only local celebrity,... ...e new skeleton—the skeleton of the late and only local celebrity, Jimmy Finn, the village drunkard—a grisly piece of prop- erty which he had bought of... ...death. The fifty dollars had gone promptly for whiskey and had considerably hurried up the change of ownership in the skel- eton. The doctor would put... ... place to be in: I had forgotten the child’s name; I hadn’t imagined it would be needed again. However, I had to pretend to know, anyway, so I said: “... ...’t you think so?” “I suppose it must be.” “Hi, there’s Mount Pilatus coming in sight again. Named after Pontius Pilate, you know, that shot the apple ... ...t it, they say. I didn’t read it—an American told me. I don’t read when I’m knocking around like this, having a good time. Did you ever see the chapel... ... and clatter. He could not have six horses all the time, so he made the most of his chance while he had it. Up to this point we had been in the heart ...

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...ee above for Gersoni’s translation); The Watch, from the Russian, by J. E. Williams, 1893. WORKS: Novels, translated by Constance Garnett, 15 vols., 1... ...out the factory. At the first glance he gave one the impression of being a Finn or a Swede. He was tall, lean, broad-shoul- dered, with colourless eye...

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..., with curls of black hair, rings in his ears, and a knife not far from his hand, if you got into trouble with him; there were Maltese Jack, and Jack ... ... whole eight hundred, without an exception, this paper is always ready. Inspector (reading the ticket). Jessie Jobson, Sophronia Jobson, Jessie Jobson... ...d away they go. Mormon agent, skilful and quiet, hands them on. Mormon agent, skilful and quiet, hands next party up. Inspector (reading ticket again)...

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...The second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to others, this book is structured round a year in his life. Starting with William waking up on Christmas morning and ending with him goin...

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...r ally, staying in the house with them when the Duchess died. This was Mrs Finn, the wife of Phineas Finn, who had been one of the Duke’s colleagues w... ... of the Duke’s colleagues when in office. How it had come to pass that Mrs Finn and the Duchess had become singularly bound together has been told els... ... time and very comfortless, it had been almost a thing of course, that Mrs Finn should go with her. And as she had sunk, and then despaired, and then ... ...wing day they had all left him, and the only stranger in the house was Mrs Finn. On the afternoon of the day after the funeral the Duke and his guest ... ...gear declared that he had made three speeches daily last week, and that Mr Williams the rector who had heard him, declared him to be a godless disside... ...e attractive, almost made him desirous of making a speech himself. Then Mr Williams, the rector, followed, a gentleman who had many staunch friends an... ... to be injuring the cause by every word he spoke. It was necessary that Mr Williams should liberate his own mind, and therefore he persevered with the... ... how a godless man should care enough about religion to be a dissenter. Mr Williams was heard with impatience, and then there was a clamour for the yo... ...mong them. His voice was much pleasanter to their ears than that of old Mr Williams. The women waved their handker- chiefs and the men stamped their f...

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...I want Benjamin Franklin and the Art of Virtue to follow; and perhaps also William Penn, but this last may be perhaps delayed for another volume – I t... ...bject smiles widely on the world:– 1830: A Chapter of Artistic History, by William Ernest Henley (or Of Socail and Artistic History, as the thing migh... ... ished Autobiography reaching up to the first performance of King John. By William Shakespeare. 2. The journals and Private Correspondence of David, K... ...all, of course goes to Lloyd. Lemme see, I have now dedicated to W. E. H. [William Ernest Henley]. S. C. [Sidney Colvin]. T. S. [Thomas Stevenson]. Si... ...on]. 192 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 There remain: C. B., the Williamses – you know they were the parties who stuck up for us about our m... ...s, I think, all that can be said by way of news. Have you read Huckleberry Finn? It contains many ex- cellent things; above all, the whole story of a ...

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...ne was brought about by Mr. Pawling, partner in the publishing firm of Mr. William Heinemann. One day Mr. Pawling said to me: “Stephen Crane has arriv... ...n the New Review and later, towards the end of his life, from the late Mr. William Blackwood in his magazine. For the rest I must say that during his ... ...d wife’s and mother’s senti- ments any more than of the good First Emperor William’s tears, shed so abundantly after every battle, by letter, telegram... ...ghtness of character are matters beyond doubt. I remember also a couple of Finns, both carpenters, of course, and very good craftsmen; a Swede, the mo...

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...any as I shall find.” A Stralsund man shot blind and large, and a war-lock Finn was he, And he hit Tom Hall with a bursting ball a hand’s-breadth over... ...hey’ll let me free o’ the barricks to walk on the Hoe again In the name o’ William Parsons, that used to be Edward Clay, An’ — any pore beggar that wa...

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... 8 I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Sibe... ...’s self I hear.) 4 I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous’d and angry people, I hear Meyerbeer’s...