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Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington

scott 29 March 2011
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SLClemens in Second Life

Among the Spirits

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SLClemens in Second Life

An Item Which the Editor Himself Could Not Understand

scott 29 March 2011
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SLClemens in Second Life

Roughing It - Chapter 4

scott 28 March 2011
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Drinking Slumgullion

Roughing It - Chapter 3

scott 27 March 2011
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Meditation

The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"

scott 22 March 2011
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Lucretia Smith's Soldier

scott 22 March 2011
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"After" Jenkins

scott 22 March 2011
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Literature in Dry Diggings

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An Inquiry about Insurances

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Curing a Cold

scott 22 March 2011
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The Story of the Bad Little Boy who Didn't Come to Grief

scott 22 March 2011
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Links to my earliest and my latest recording efforts.

Among the Fenians

scott 22 March 2011
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Roughing It - Chapter 2

scott 19 March 2011
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The Facetious Driver

Answers to Correspondents

scott 15 March 2011
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This sketch is found in two books of sketches, The Celebrated Jumping Frog Calaveras County and Other Sketches, as well as Sketches New and Old.

A Complaint About Correspondents

scott 15 March 2011
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Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man

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First published in the Californian, a journal edited by Bret Harte, October 22, 1864. The Mark Twain Encyclopedia as an interesting article on this tale by Nancy Chinn. (see Google Books)

This sketch can also be found in the volume Sketches New and Old.

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

scott 14 March 2011
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