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100 1  Twain, Mark,|d1835-1910. 
245 14 The comic Mark Twain reader :|bthe most humorous 
       selections from his stories, sketches, novels, travel 
       books, and speeches /|cedited with an introd. and notes by
       Charles Neider. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 Garden City, N.Y. :|bDoubleday,|c1977. 
300    xxx, 489 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Introduction -- The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras 
       County -- Journalism in Tennessee -- The facts in the 
       great beef contract -- How I edited an agricultural paper 
       -- Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup --
       The invalid's story -- The McWilliamses and the burglar 
       alarm -- Playing courier -- The Fourth of July -- Plymouth
       Rock and the pilgrims -- Woman, God bless her! -- Glove 
       purchases in Gibraltar -- Parisian shave -- Billfinger -- 
       Guide-English -- Shortage of soap -- A sort of people -- A
       skinning -- An ancient playbill -- Guying the guides -- 
       Turkish bath -- That girl in Yalta -- "Jericho" -- A party
       of eight -- King Solomon-in-all-his-glory -- A fearless 
       man -- The Benton House -- The great pyramid of Cheops -- 
       Cookery complaints -- A newspaper valedictory -- The 
       cayote -- When the buffalo climbed a tree -- A hundred and
       ten tin whistles -- A genuine Mexican plug -- Mr. Arkansas
       -- The great landslide case -- Buck Fanshaw's funeral -- 
       The story of the old ram -- Fetch her out! -- Tom Quartz -
       - "Blanketing" the animal -- The Greeley correspondence 
       with Erickson -- Markiss, king of liars -- A practical 
       joke -- Jim Baker's bluejay yarn -- The great French duel 
       -- Cholley Adams -- The laborious ant -- Nicodemus Dodge -
       - An American party -- American in Europe -- Ascending the
       Riffelberg -- The awful German language -- Keelboat talk 
       and manners -- An incognito exploded -- The house 
       beautiful -- Manufactures -- The art of inhumation -- Pap,
       his own self -- The duke and the dauphin -- Curing a cold 
       -- Aurelia's unfortunate young man -- The facts in the 
       case of the Senate doorkeeper -- Female suffrage -- The 
       facts concerning the recent resignation -- My late 
       senatorial secretaryship -- Private habits of Horace 
       Greeley -- Last words of great men -- A mystery cleared up
       -- The late Benjamin Franklin -- The reception at the 
       president's -- The widow's protest -- About barbers -- A 
       burlesque biography -- An encounter with an interviewer --
       The frog jumping of the County of Calaveras -- Punch, 
       brothers, punch -- Remarkable gold mines -- A petition to 
       the queen of England -- A cure for the blues -- Traveling 
       with a reformer -- Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses -- 
       My first lie, and how I got out of it -- Amended 
       obituaries -- Sources -- Index.  
650  0 Humorous stories, American. 
650  0 Speeches, addresses, etc., American. 
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