The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Works of Mark Twain: An Index of all Project Gutenberg Editions

This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.

Title: The Works of Mark Twain: An Index of all Project Gutenberg Editions

Author: Mark Twain

Editor: David Widger

Release date: May 14, 2009 [eBook #28803]
Most recently updated: November 11, 2023

Language: English

Credits: Produced by David Widger

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE WORKS OF MARK TWAIN: AN INDEX OF ALL PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITIONS ***



THE WORKS OF

MARK TWAIN

(1835-1910)



AN ON-LINE INDEX



Edited by David Widger

Project Gutenberg Editions



TWAIN

VOLUMES

Click on the ## before each title to go directly to a
linked index of the detailed chapters and illustrations



Illustrated Editions          

##  The American Claimant

##  A Dog's Tale

##  Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

Eve's Diary

##  The Innocents Abroad

##  A Tramp Abroad

##  A Gilded Age

##  Following The Equator

##  Sketches New and Old

##  Huckleberry Finn

##  Adventures of Tom Sawyer

##  Roughing It

##  Prince and Pauper

##  Connecticut Yankee

##  Life on the Mississippi



Letters    

##  Volume 1.    

##  Volume 2.    

##  Volume 3    

##  Volume 4.    

##  Volume 5.    

##  Volume 6.







Without Illustrations

##  Mysterious Stranger

##  The Double Barrelled Detective

##  The Stolen White Elephant

##  Rambling Idle Excursion

##  Carnival of Crime in CT.

##  The Loves of Alonzo Fitz

##  Those Extraordinary Twins

##  A Burlesque Autobiography

##  Mysterious Stranger

##  Christian Science

##  Mark Twain's Speeches

##  1601

##  Curious Republic of Gondour

##  Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

##  Essays on Paul Bourget

##  How to Tell a Story

##  Fennimore Cooper Offences

##  Defence of Harriet Shelley

##  Hadleyberg Stories et al.

##  What Is Man? And Others

##  Tom Sawyer Abroad

##  Tom Sawyer, Detective

##  The $30,000 Bequest and Others

##  Recollections of Joan of Arc, I.

##  Recollections of Joan of Arc, II.






FROM PG OF AUSTRALIA

Mark Twain's Autobiography is in the public domain in Australia,
but not in the USA. Readers in the USA are asked NOT to open
or download these files. They are available ON-LINE only.


Mark Twain's Autobiography:   Volume One     Volume Two

Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain—1862-1881






TWAIN'S WORKS CONTRIBUTED TO PG BY DAVID PRICE

Captain Stormfield's Vist to Heaven

A Horse's Tale

Is Shakespeare Dead?

The Man who Corrupted Hadleyburg







VOLUMES,  CHAPTERS
and ILLUSTRATIONS


Illustrated Editions


THE AMERICAN CLAIMANT



CHAPTER I.

The Earl of Rossmore vs. the American Claimant—Viscount
Berkeley proposes to change places with the Claimant—
The Claimant's letter—Lord Berkeley decides to visit
America

CHAPTER II.

Colonel Mulberry Sellers and his art gallery—He receives a
visit from Washington Hawkins—Talking over old times
—Washington informs the colonel that he is the congressional
delegate from Cherokee Strip.

CHAPTER III.

Mrs. Sellers pronounces the colonel "the same old scheming,
generous, good-hearted, moonshiny, hopeful, no-account
failure he always was"—He takes in Dan'l and Jinny—
The colonel originates "Pigs in the Clover"—He offers
one of his art treasures to propitiate Suggs—One-armed
Pete; the bank thief

CHAPTER IV.

A Yankee makes an offer for "Pigs in the Clover"—By the
death of a relative Sellers becomes the rightful Earl of
Rossmore and consequently the American Clairnant—
Gwendolen is sent for from school—The remains of the
late Claimant and brother to be shipped to England—
Hawkins and Sellers nail the hatchments on "Rossmore
Towers"

CHAPTER V.

Gwendolen's letter—Her arrival at home—Hawkins is introduced,
to his great pleasure—Communication from the bank thief—
Hawkins and Sellers have to wait ten days longer before
getting the reward—Viscount Berkeley and the late Claimant's
remains start simultaneously from England and America

CHAPTER VI.

Arrival of the remains of late Claimant and brother in England
—The usurping earl officiates as chief mourner, and they
are laid with their kindred in Cholmondeley church—Sally
Sellers a gifted costume-designer—Another communication
from the bank thief—Locating him in the New Gadsby—
The colonel's glimpse of one—armed Pete in the elevator—
Arrival of Viscount Berkeley at the same hotel

CHAPTER VII.

Viscount Berkeley jots down his "impressions" to date with
a quill pen—The destruction of the New Gadsby by fire—
Berkeley loses his bearings and escapes with his journaled
"impressions" only—Discovery and hasty donning of
one-armed Pete's abandoned wardrobe—Glowing and affecting
account in the morning papers of the heroic death of the
heir of Rossmore—He will take a new name and start out "incog"

CHAPTER VIII.
The colonel's grief at the loss of both Berkeley and one-armed
Pete—Materialization—Breaking the news to the family—
The colonel starts to identify and secure a body (or ashes)
to send to the bereaved father

CHAPTER IX.

The usual actress and her diamonds in the hotel fire—The
colonel secures three baskets of ashes—Mrs. Sellers forbids
their lying in state—Generous hatchments—The ashes to be
sent only when the earl sends for them

CHAPTER X.

Lord Berkeley deposits the $500 found in his appropriated
clothes—Attends "Mechanics' Debating Club"—Berkeley
(alias Tracy) is glad he came to this country

CHAPTER XI.

No work for Tracy—Cheaper lodgings secured—Sleeping on
the roof—"My daughter Hattie"—Tracy receives further
"impressions" from Hattie (otherwise "Puss")—Mr. Barrow
appears—And offers to help Tracy find work

CHAPTER XII.

A boarding—house dinner—"No money, no dinner" for Mr.
Brady—"How did you come to mount that hat?"—A glimpse
of (the supposed) one-armed Pete—Extract from
Tracy's diary

CHAPTER XIII.
Tracy and trades-unions—Unpopularity with fellow-boarders
—Which changes to popularity on his punishing Allen—
The cablegram

CHAPTER XIV.

"Mechanics' Debating Club" again—Tracy is comforted by
Barrow's remarks—"Fool or no fool, he would grab it"
—"Earldom! oh, yes, take it if it offers"

CHAPTER XV.

"You forgot to pay your board"—"I've been robbed "—Mr.
Allen among the missing, likewise other things—The
cablegram: "Thanks"—Despair of Tracy—"You've got
to amuse your mind"

CHAPTER XVI.
The collaborative art collection—The artists—"The cannon's
our trademark"—Tracy's mind is amused

CHAPTER XVII.
No further cablegram—"If those ghastly artists want a confederate,
I'm their man"—Tracy taken into partnership—Disappointments
of materialization — The phonograph adapted to marine service
—Utilization of wasted sewer gas

CHAPTER XVIII.

The colonel's project to set Russia free—"I am going to buy
Siberia"—The materializee turns up—Being an artist he
is invited to restore the colonel's collection—Which he
forthwith begins

CHAPTER XIX.
The perplexities and nobilities of materialization—The materializee
eats a couple of apples—Horror of Hawkins and Sellers—It must be
a mistake"

CHAPTER XX.

Tracy's perplexities with regard to the Claimant's sanity—
The Claimant interviews him—Sally Sellers meets Tracy
—A violent case of love at first sight—Pinks

CHAPTER XXI.

Empty painting; empty millinerizing—Tracy's work satisfactory—
Sellers's new picture of Lord Berkeley—"He is a wobbler"—
The unsuccessful dinner—parties—"They flung their arms about
each other's necks"

CHAPTER XXII.

"The materializing has got to stop where it is"—Sally Sellers
repudiates "Lady Gwendolen"—The late Lord Berkeley Sally's hero—
"The shady devil [Doubt] had knifed her"

CHAPTER XXIII.

Tracy writes to his father—The rival houses to be united by
his marriage to Sally Sellers—The earl decides to "step
over and take a hand"—"The course of true love," etc.,
as usual—"You an earl's son! show me the signs"

CHAPTER XXIV.

Time drags heavily for all concerned—Success of "Pigs in the
Clover"—Sellers is "fixed" for his temperance lecture—
Colonel and Mrs. Sellers start for Europe—Interview of
Hawkins and Sally—Tracy an impostor

CHAPTER XXV.

Telegram: "She's going to marry the materializee"—Interview
between Tracy and Sally—Arrival of the usurping earl—
"You can have him if you'll take him"—A quiet wedding
at the Towers—Sellers does not join the party to England—
Preparing to furnish climates to order

APPENDIX.

The weather in this book







LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

"He was constructing some kind of frail mechanical toy."
"It must try your patience pretty sharply sometimes."
One-armed Pete
"Father, I am going to shake hands with Major Hawkins."
"Must + he go down in his spectral night dress?"
"Clah to goodness it's de fust time I've sot eyes on 'em."  
Parker, assistant editor of the Democrat
"How do you do?"
"Both were so paralyzed with joy."
"It had already happened."
"His thoughts had been far away from these things."
"Fool or no fool, he would grab it."
"No. 5 started a laugh."
Capt. Saltmarsh and brother of the brush
Wasted sewer gas
"Eastward with that great light transfiguring their faces."
It was a violent case of mutual love at first sight
"Time dragged heavily for both, now."
"Oh, my God, she's kissing it!"
"The shady devil had knifed her."
"You an earl's son! Show me the signs."
"My father!"
"Finally there was a quiet wedding at the Towers."







A Dog's Tale

ILLUSTRATIONS

1. Book Cover
2. Frontpiece
3. By-and-by Came My Little Puppy
4. Flocked In To Hear Of My Heroism
5. You Saved HIS Child


Chapter I.

Chapter II.

Chapter III.






Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

A WHISPER TO THE READER
CHAPTER 1 — Pudd'nhead Wins His Name
CHAPTER 2 — Driscoll Spares His Slaves
CHAPTER 3 — Roxy Plays a Shrewd Trick
CHAPTER 4 — The Ways of the Changelings
CHAPTER 5 — The Twins Thrill Dawson's Landing
CHAPTER 6 — Swimming in Glory
CHAPTER 7 — The Unknown Nymph
CHAPTER 8 — Marse Tom Tramples His Chance
CHAPTER 9 — Tom Practices Sycophancy
CHAPTER 10 — The Nymph Revealed
CHAPTER 11 — Pudd'nhead's Thrilling Discovery
CHAPTER 12 — The Shame of Judge Driscoll
CHAPTER 13 — Tom Stares at Ruin
CHAPTER 14 — Roxana Insists Upon Reform
CHAPTER 15 — The Robber Robbed
CHAPTER 16 — Sold Down the River
CHAPTER 17 — The Judge Utters Dire Prophesy
CHAPTER 18 — Roxana Commands
CHAPTER 19 — The Prophesy Realized
CHAPTER 20 — The Murderer Chuckles
CHAPTER 21 — Doom
CONCLUSION
AUTHOR'S NOTE TO "THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS"









Letters, Volume 1.

FOREWORD
MARK TWAIN—A BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
MARK TWAIN'S LETTERS
I.
EARLY LETTERS, 1853. NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA
II.
LETTERS 1856-61. KEOKUK, AND THE RIVER. END OF PILOTING
III.
LETTERS 1861-62. ON THE FRONTIER. MINING ADVENTURES. JOURNALISTIC BEGINNINGS.
IV.
LETTERS 1863-64. "MARK TWAIN." COMSTOCK JOURNALISM. ARTEMUS WARD
V.
LETTERS 1864-66. SAN FRANCISCO AND HAWAII
VI.
LETTERS 1866-67. THE LECTURER. SUCCESS ON THE COAST. IN NEW YORK. THE GREAT OCEAN EXCURSION.






Volume 2.

VII.
LETTERS 1867. THE TRAVELER. THE VOYAGE OF THE "QUAKER CITY"
VIII.
LETTERS 1867-68. WASHINGTON AND SAN FRANCISCO. THE PROPOSED BOOK OF TRAVEL. A NEW LECTURE.
IX.
LETTERS 1868-70. COURTSHIP, AND "THE INNOCENTS ABROAD"
X.
LETTERS 1870-71. MARK TWAIN IN BUFFALO. MARRIAGE. THE BUFFALO EXPRESS. "MEMORANDA." LECTURES. A NEW BOOK.
XI.
LETTERS 1871-72. REMOVAL TO HARTFORD. A LECTURE TOUR. "ROUGHING IT." FIRST LETTER TO HOWELLS.
XII.
LETTERS 1872-73. MARK TWAIN IN ENGLAND. LONDON HONORS. ACQUAINTANCE WITH DR. JOHN BROWN. A LECTURE TRIUMPH. "THE GILDED AGE".
XIII.
LETTERS 1874. HARTFORD AND ELMIRA. A NEW STUDY. BEGINNING "TOM SAWYER." THE SELLERS PLAY.
XIV.
LETTERS 1874. MISSISSIPPI CHAPTERS. VISITS TO BOSTON. A JOKE ON ALDRICH.
XV.
LETTERS FROM HARTFORD, 1875. MUCH CORRESPONDENCE WITH HOWELLS






Volume 3

XVI.
LETTERS, 1876, CHIEFLY TO W. D. HOWELLS. LITERATURE AND POLITICS. PLANNING A PLAY WITH BRET HARTE.
XVII.
LETTERS, 1877. TO BERMUDA WITH TWICHELL. PROPOSITION TO TH. NAST. THE WHITTIER DINNER.
XVIII.
LETTERS FROM EUROPE, 1878-79. TRAMPING WITH TWICHELL. WRITING A NEW TRAVEL BOOK. LIFE IN MUNICH.
XIX.
LETTERS 1879. RETURN TO AMERICA. THE GREAT GRANT REUNION
XX.
LETTERS OF 1880, CHIEFLY TO HOWELLS. "THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER." MARK TWAIN MUGWUMP SOCIETY.
XXI.
LETTERS 1881, TO HOWELLS AND OTHERS. ASSISTING A YOUNG SCULPTOR. LITERARY PLANS.
XXII.
LETTERS, 1882, MAINLY TO HOWELLS. WASTED FURY. OLD SCENES REVISITED. THE MISSISSIPPI BOOK.
XXIII.
LETTERS, 1883, TO HOWELLS AND OTHERS. A GUEST OF THE MARQUIS OF LORNE. THE HISTORY GAME. A PLAY BY HOWELLS AND MARK TWAIN.
XXIV.
LETTERS, 1884, TO HOWELLS AND OTHERS. CABLE'S GREAT APRIL FOOL. "HUCK FINN" IN PRESS. MARK TWAIN FOR CLEVELAND. CLEMENS AND CABLE.
XXV.
THE GREAT YEAR OF 1885. CLEMENS AND CABLE. PUBLICATION OF "HUCK






Volume 4.

XXVI.
LETTERS, 1886-87. JANE CLEMENS'S ROMANCE. UNMAILED LETTERS, ETC.
XXVII.
MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS OF 1887. LITERARY ARTICLES. PEACEFUL DAYS AT THE FARM. FAVORITE READING. APOLOGY TO MRS. CLEVELAND, ETC.
XXVIII.
LETTERS,1888. A YALE DEGREE. WORK ON "THE YANKEE." ON INTERVIEWING, ETC.
XXIX.
LETTERS, 1889. THE MACHINE. DEATH OF MR. CRANE. CONCLUSION OF THE YANKEE.
XXX.
LETTERS, 1890, CHIEFLY TO JOS. T. GOODMAN. THE GREAT MACHINE ENTERPRISE
XXXI.
LETTERS, 1891, TO HOWELLS, MRS. CLEMENS AND OTHERS. RETURN TO LITERATURE. AMERICAN CLAIMANT. LEAVING HARTFORD. EUROPE. DOWN THE RHINE.
XXXII.
LETTERS, 1892, CHIEFLY TO MR. HALL AND MRS. CRANE. IN BERLIN, MENTONE, BAD-NAUHEIM, FLORENCE.
XXXIII.
LETTERS, 1893, TO MR. HALL, MRS. CLEMENS, AND OTHERS. FLORENCE. BUSINESS TROUBLES. "PUDD'NHEAD WILSON." "JOAN OF ARC." AT THE PLAYERS, NEW
XXXIV.
LETTERS 1894. A WINTER IN NEW YORK. BUSINESS FAILURE. END OF THE MACHINE.
XXXV.
LETTERS, 1895-96, TO H. H. ROGERS AND OTHERS. FINISHING "JOAN OF ARC." THE TRIP AROUND THE WORLD. DEATH OF SUSY CLEMENS.
XXXVI.
LETTERS 1897. LONDON, SWITZERLAND, VIENNA
XXXVII.
LETTERS, 1898, TO HOWELLS AND TWICHELL. LIFE IN VIENNA. PAYMENT OF THE DEBTS. ASSASSINATION OF THE EMPRESS.
XXXVIII.
LETTERS, 1899, TO HOWELLS AND OTHERS. VIENNA. LONDON. A SUMMER IN SWEDEN.
XXXIX.
LETTERS OF 1900, MAINLY TO TWICHELL. THE BOER WAR. BOXER TROUBLES. THE RETURN TO AMERICA.






Volume 5.

XL.
LETTERS OF 1901, CHIEFLY TO TWICHELL. MARK TWAIN AS A REFORMER. SUMMER AT SARANAC. ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY.
XLI.
LETTERS OF 1902. RIVERDALE. YORK HARBOR. ILLNESS OF MRS. CLEMENS
XLII.
LETTERS OF 1903. TO VARIOUS PERSONS. HARD DAYS AT RIVERDALE. LAST SUMMER AT ELMIRA. THE RETURN TO ITALY.
XLIII.
LETTERS OF 1904. TO VARIOUS PERSONS. LIFE IN VILLA QUARTO. DEATH OF MRS. CLEMENS. THE RETURN TO AMERICA.
XLIV.
LETTERS OF 1905. TO TWICHELL, MR. DUNEKA AND OTHERS. POLITICS AND HUMANITY. A SUMMER AT DUBLIN. MARK TWAIN AT 70.
XLV.
LETTERS, 1906, TO VARIOUS PERSONS. THE FAREWELL LECTURE. A SECOND SUMMER IN DUBLIN. BILLIARDS AND COPYRIGHT.






Volume 6.

XLVI.
LETTERS 1907-08. A DEGREE FROM OXFORD. THE NEW HOME AT REDDING.
XLVII.
LETTERS, 1909. TO HOWELLS AND OTHERS. LIFE AT STORMFIELD. COPYRIGHT EXTENSION. DEATH OF JEAN CLEMENS
XLVIII.
LETTERS OF 1910. LAST TRIP TO BERMUDA. LETTERS TO PAINE. THE LAST LETTER.






Mysterious Stranger

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11


A FABLE
HUNTING THE DECEITFUL TURKEY
THE McWILLIAMSES AND THE BURGLAR ALARM






The Double Barrelled Detective

PART I     
I
II
III
IV.
V
PART II
I
II
III
IV
V






The Stolen White Elephant

I.
II
III






Rambling Idle Excursion

I.
II.
III.
IV.






Carnival of Crime in CT.






The Loves of Alonzo Fitz

THE LOVES OF ALONZO FITZ CLARENCE AND ROSANNAH ETHELTON
ON THE DECAY OF THE ART OF LYING
ABOUT MAGNANIMOUS-INCIDENT LITERATURE
PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH
THE GREAT REVOLUTION IN PITCAIRN
THE CANVASSER'S TALE
AN ENCOUNTER WITH AN INTERVIEWER
PARIS NOTES
LEGEND OF SAGENFELD, IN GERMANY
SPEECH ON THE BABIES
SPEECH ON THE WEATHER
CONCERNING THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE
ROGERS






Those Extraordinary Twins

CHAPTER I. THE TWINS AS THEY REALLY WERE
CHAPTER II. MA COOPER GETS ALL MIXED UP
CHAPTER III. ANGELO IS BLUE
CHAPTER IV. SUPERNATURAL CHRONOMETRY
CHAPTER V. GUILT AND INNOCENCE FINELY BLENT
CHAPTER VI. THE AMAZING DUEL
CHAPTER VII. LUIGI DEFIES GALEN
CHAPTER VIII. BAPTISM OF THE BETTER HALF
CHAPTER IX. THE DRINKLESS DRUNK
CHAPTER X. SO THEY HANGED LUIGI
FINAL REMARKS.   






A Burlesque Autobiography

BURLESQUE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
AWFUL, TERRIBLE MEDIEVAL ROMANCE
CHAPTER I. THE SECRET REVEALED.
CHAPTER II. FESTIVITY AND TEARS
CHAPTER III. THE PLOT THICKENS.
CHAPTER IV. THE AWFUL REVELATION.
CHAPTER V. THE FRIGHTFUL CATASTROPHE.






Mysterious Stranger

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11


A FABLE
HUNTING THE DECEITFUL TURKEY
THE McWILLIAMSES AND THE BURGLAR ALARM






Christian Science

PREFACE
BOOK I. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
BOOK II.
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
POSTSCRIPT
CHAPTER V
SUMMARY
CHAPTER VI
THE PASTOR EMERITUS
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
THE PRESIDENT
TREASURER AND CLERK
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
READERS
ELECTION OF READERS
THE ARISTOCRACY
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP
AND SOME ENGLISH REQUIRED
"READERS" AGAIN
MONOPOLY OF SPIRITUAL BREAD
CHAPTER VII.
THE NEW INFALLIBILITY
THE SACRED POEMS
THE CHURCH EDIFICE
PRAYER
THE LORD'S PRAYER-AMENDED
THE NEW UNPARDONABLE SIN
AXE AND BLOCK
READING LETTERS AT MEETINGS
HONESTY REQUISITE
FURTHER APPLICATIONS OF THE AXE
MORE SELF-PROTECTIONS
BOARD OF EDUCATION
PUBLIC TEACHERS
BOARD OF LECTURESHIP
MISSIONARIES
THE BY-LAWS
THE CREED
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY
CHAPTER VIII
"MOTHER-CHURCH UNIQUE"
"NO FIRST MEMBERS"
"THE"
A LIFE-TERM MONOPOLY
A PERPETUAL ONE
THE SANCTUM SANCTORUM AND SACRED CHAIR
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PASTOR-UNIVERSAL
PRICE OF THE PASTOR-UNIVERSAL
SEVEN HUNDRED PER CENT.
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
APPENDIX C
APPENDIX D
APPENDIX E
APPENDIX F
MRS. EDDY IN ERROR
MAIN PARTS OF THE MACHINE
DISTRIBUTION OF THE MACHINE'S POWERS AND DIGNITIES
CONCLUSION






Mark Twain's Speeches

INTRODUCTION
PREFACE
THE STORY OF A SPEECH
PLYMOUTH ROCK AND THE PILGRIMS
COMPLIMENTS AND DEGREES
BOOKS, AUTHORS, AND HATS
DEDICATION SPEECH
DIE SCHRECKEN DER DEUTSCHEN SPRACHE
GERMAN FOR THE HUNGARIANS
A NEW GERMAN WORD
UNCONSCIOUS PLAGIARISM
THE WEATHER
THE BABIES
OUR CHILDREN AND GREAT DISCOVERIES
EDUCATING THEATRE-GOERS
THE EDUCATIONAL THEATRE
POETS AS POLICEMEN
PUDD'NHEAD WILSON DRAMATIZED
DALY THEATRE
THE DRESS OF CIVILIZED WOMAN
DRESS REFORM AND COPYRIGHT
COLLEGE GIRLS
GIRLS
THE LADIES
WOMAN'S PRESS CLUB
VOTES FOR WOMEN
WOMAN-AN OPINION
ADVICE TO GIRLS
TAXES AND MORALS
TAMMANY AND CROKER
MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
CHINA AND THE PHILIPPINES
THEORETICAL MORALS
LAYMAN'S SERMON
UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY
PUBLIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
EDUCATION AND CITIZENSHIP
COURAGE
THE DINNER TO MR. CHOATE
ON STANLEY AND LIVINGSTONE
HENRY M. STANLEY
DINNER TO MR. JEROME
HENRY IRVING
DINNER TO HAMILTON W. MABIE
INTRODUCING NYE AND RILEY
DINNER TO WHITELAW REID
ROGERS AND RAILROADS
THE OLD-FASHIONED PRINTER
SOCIETY OF AMERICAN AUTHORS
READING-ROOM OPENING
LITERATURE
DISAPPEARANCE OF LITERATURE
THE NEW YORK PRESS CLUB DINNER
THE ALPHABET AND SIMPLIFIED SPELLING
SPELLING AND PICTURES
BOOKS AND BURGLARS
AUTHORS' CLUB
BOOKSELLERS
"MARK TWAIN'S FIRST APPEARANCE"
MORALS AND MEMORY
QUEEN VICTORIA
JOAN OF ARC
ACCIDENT INSURANCE—ETC.
OSTEOPATHY
WATER-SUPPLY
MISTAKEN IDENTITY
CATS AND CANDY
OBITUARY POETRY
CIGARS AND TOBACCO
BILLIARDS
THE UNION RIGHT OR WRONG
AN IDEAL FRENCH ADDRESS
STATISTICS
GALVESTON ORPHAN BAZAAR
SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE
CHARITY AND ACTORS
RUSSIAN REPUBLIC
RUSSIAN SUFFERERS
WATTERSON AND TWAIN AS REBELS
ROBERT FULTON FUND
FULTON DAY, JAMESTOWN
LOTOS CLUB DINNER IN HONOR OF MARK TWAIN
COPYRIGHT
IN AID OF THE BLIND
DR. MARK TWAIN, FARMEOPATH
MISSOURI UNIVERSITY SPEECH
BUSINESS
CARNEGIE THE BENEFACTOR
ON POETRY, VERACITY, AND SUICIDE
WELCOME HOME
AN UNDELIVERED SPEECH
SIXTY-SEVENTH BIRTHDAY
TO THE WHITEFRIARS
THE ASCOT GOLD CUP
THE SAVAGE CLUB DINNER
GENERAL MILES AND THE DOG
WHEN IN DOUBT, TELL THE TRUTH
THE DAY WE CELEBRATE
INDEPENDENCE DAY
AMERICANS AND THE ENGLISH
ABOUT LONDON
PRINCETON
THE ST. LOUIS HARBOR-BOAT "MARK TWAIN"
SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY






1601

INTRODUCTION
THE FIRST PRINTING: Verbatim Reprint
FOOTNOTES To Frivolity
PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY






Curious Republic of Gondour

THE CURIOUS REPUBLIC OF GONDOUR
A MEMORY
INTRODUCTORY TO "MEMORANDA"
ABOUT SMELLS
A COUPLE OF SAD EXPERIENCES
DAN MURPHY
THE "TOURNAMENT" IN A. D. 1870
CURIOUS RELIC FOR SALE
A REMINISCENCE OF THE BACK SETTLEMENTS
A ROYAL COMPLIMENT
THE APPROACHING EPIDEMIC
THE TONE-IMPARTING COMMITTEE
OUR PRECIOUS LUNATIC
THE EUROPEAN WARS—
          [From the Buffalo Express, July 25, 1870.]
THE WILD MAN INTERVIEWED—
          [From the Buffalo Express, September 18, 1869.]
LAST WORDS OF GREAT MEN—
          [From the Buffalo Express, September 11, 1889.]






Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

LETTER I
LETTER II
LETTER III
LETTER IV
LETTER V
LETTER VI
LETTER VII






Essays on Paul Bourget

WHAT PAUL BOURGET THINKS OF US
A LITTLE NOTE TO M. PAUL BOURGET






How to Tell a Story

HOW TO TELL A STORY
          THE WOUNDED SOLDIER.
          THE GOLDEN ARM.
MENTAL TELEGRAPHY AGAIN
THE INVALID'S STORY






Fennimore Cooper Offences






Defence of Harriet Shelley

I
II
III






Hadleyberg Stories et al.

THE MAN THAT CORRUPTED HADLEYBURG
MY FIRST LIE, AND HOW I GOT OUT OF IT
THE ESQUIMAUX MAIDEN'S ROMANCE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND THE BOOK OF MRS. EDDY
IS HE LIVING OR IS HE DEAD?
MY DEBUT AS A LITERARY PERSON
AT THE APPETITE-CURE
CONCERNING THE JEWS
FROM THE 'LONDON TIMES' OF 1904
ABOUT PLAY-ACTING
TRAVELLING WITH A REFORMER
DIPLOMATIC PAY AND CLOTHES
LUCK
THE CAPTAIN'S STORY
STIRRING TIMES IN AUSTRIA
PRIVATE HISTORY OF THE 'JUMPING FROG' STORY
[Translation.]
[My Retranslation.]
MY MILITARY CAMPAIGN
MEISTERSCHAFT
ACT I. SCENE I.
ACT II. SCENE I.
ACT III.
MY BOYHOOD DREAMS
TO THE ABOVE OLD PEOPLE
IN MEMORIAM






What Is Man? And Others

WHAT IS MAN?
THE DEATH OF JEAN
THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE
HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK
THE MEMORABLE ASSASSINATION
A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY
SWITZERLAND, THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY
AT THE SHRINE OF ST. WAGNER
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT
ON GIRLS
A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET
AS CONCERNS INTERPRETING THE DEITY
CONCERNING TOBACCO
THE BEE
TAMING THE BICYCLE
IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD?






Tom Sawyer Abroad

CHAPTER I. TOM SEEKS NEW ADVENTURES
CHAPTER II. THE BALLOON ASCENSION
CHAPTER III. TOM EXPLAINS
CHAPTER IV. STORM
CHAPTER V. LAND
CHAPTER VI. IT'S A CARAVAN
CHAPTER VII. TOM RESPECTS THE FLEA
CHAPTER VIII. THE DISAPPEARING LAKE
CHAPTER IX. TOM DISCOURSES ON THE DESERT
CHAPTER X. THE TREASURE-HILL
CHAPTER XI. THE SAND-STORM
CHAPTER XII. JIM STANDING SIEGE
CHAPTER XIII.     GOING FOR TOM'S PIPE






Tom Sawyer, Detective

CHAPTER I. AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK
CHAPTER II. JAKE DUNLAP
CHAPTER III. A DIAMOND ROBBERY
CHAPTER IV. THE THREE SLEEPERS
CHAPTER V. A TRAGEDY IN THE WOODS
CHAPTER VI. PLANS TO SECURE THE DIAMONDS
CHAPTER VII. A NIGHT'S VIGIL
CHAPTER VIII.     TALKING WITH THE GHOST
CHAPTER IX. FINDING OF JUBITER DUNLAP
CHAPTER X. THE ARREST OF UNCLE SILAS
CHAPTER XI. TOM SAWYER DISCOVERS THE MURDERERS






The $30,000 Bequest and Others

THE $30,000 BEQUEST
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
A DOG'S TALE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
WAS IT HEAVEN? OR HELL?
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
A CURE FOR THE BLUES
THE CURIOUS BOOK
THE CALIFORNIAN'S TALE
A HELPLESS SITUATION
A TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION
EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE
THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES
ITALIAN WITHOUT A MASTER
ITALIAN WITH GRAMMAR
A BURLESQUE BIOGRAPHY
HOW TO TELL A STORY
GENERAL WASHINGTON'S NEGRO BODY-SERVANT
WIT INSPIRATIONS OF THE "TWO-YEAR-OLDS"
AN ENTERTAINING ARTICLE
A LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
AMENDED OBITUARIES
A MONUMENT TO ADAM
A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN
INTRODUCTION TO "THE NEW GUIDE OF THE
CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH"
ADVICE TO LITTLE GIRLS
POST-MORTEM POETRY (1)
THE DANGER OF LYING IN BED
PORTRAIT OF KING WILLIAM III
DOES THE RACE OF MAN LOVE A LORD?
EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY
EVE'S DIARY
EXTRACT FROM ADAM'S DIARY






Recollections of Joan of Arc, I.

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
A PECULIARITY OF JOAN OF ARC'S HISTORY
THE SIEUR LOUIS DE CONTE
BOOK I IN DOMREMY
Chapter 1 When Wolves Ran Free in Paris
Chapter 2 The Fairy Tree of Domremy
Chapter 3 All Aflame with Love of France
Chapter 4 Joan Tames the Mad Man
Chapter 5 Domremy Pillaged and Burned
Chapter 6 Joan and Archangel Michael
Chapter 7 She Delivers the Divine Command
Chapter 8 Why the Scorners Relented
BOOK II IN COURT AND CAMP
Chapter 1 Joan Says Good-By
Chapter 2 The Governor Speeds Joan
Chapter 3 The Paladin Groans and Boasts
Chapter 4 Joan Leads Us Through the Enemy
Chapter 5 We Pierce the Last Ambuscades
Chapter 6 Joan Convinces the King
Chapter 7 Our Paladin in His Glory
Chapter 8 Joan Persuades Her Inquisitors
Chapter 9 She Is Made General-in-Chief
Chapter 10 The Maid's Sword and Banner
Chapter 11 The War March Is Begun
Chapter 12 Joan Puts Heart in Her Army
Chapter 13 Checked by the Folly of the Wise
Chapter 14 What the English Answered
Chapter 15 My Exquisite Poem Goes to Smash
Chapter 16 The Finding of the Dwarf
Chapter 17 Sweet Fruit of Bitter Truth
Chapter 18 Joan's First Battle-Field
Chapter 19 We Burst In Upon Ghosts
Chapter 20 Joan Makes Cowards Brave Victors
Chapter 21 She Gently Reproves Her Dear Friend
Chapter 22 The Fate of France Decided
Chapter 23 Joan Inspires the Tawdry King
Chapter 24 Tinsel Trappings of Nobility
Chapter 25 At Last—Forward!
Chapter 26 The Last Doubts Scattered
Chapter 27 How Joan Took Jargeau






Recollections of Joan of Arc, II.

BOOK II — IN COURT AND CAMP (Continued)
28 Joan Foretells Her Doom
29 Fierce Talbot Reconsiders
30 The Red Field of Patay
31 France Begins to Live Again
32 The Joyous News Flies Fast
33 Joan's Five Great Deeds
34 The Jests of the Burgundians
35 The Heir of France is Crowned
36 Joan Hears News from Home
37 Again to Arms
38 The King Cries "Forward!"
39 We Win, But the King Balks
40 Treachery Conquers Joan
41 The Maid Will March No More
BOOK III TRIAL AND MARTYRDOM
1 The Maid in Chains
2 Joan Sold to the English
3 Weaving the Net About Her
4 All Ready to Condemn
5 Fifty Experts Against a Novice
6 The Maid Baffles Her Persecutors
7 Craft That Was in Vain
8 Joan Tells of Her Visions
9 Her Sure Deliverance Foretold
10 The Inquisitors at Their Wits' End
11 The Court Reorganized for Assassination
12 Joan's Master-Stroke Diverted
13 The Third Trial Fails
14 Joan Struggles with Her Twelve Lies
15 Undaunted by Threat of Burning
16 Joan Stands Defiant Before the Rack
17 Supreme in Direst Peril
18 Condemned Yet Unafraid
19 Our Last Hopes of Rescue Fail
20 The Betrayal
21 Respited Only for Torture
22 Joan Gives the Fatal Answer
23 The Time Is at Hand
24 Joan the Martyr
CONCLUSION






Autobiography, Vol. I.






Autobiography, Vol. II.







THE INNOCENTS ABROAD

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Popular Talk of the Excursion—Programme of the Trip—Duly Ticketed for the Excursion—Defection of the Celebrities
CHAPTER II. Grand Preparations—An Imposing Dignitary—The European Exodus— Mr. Blucher’s Opinion—Stateroom No. 10—The Assembling of the Clans— At Sea at Last
CHAPTER III. “Averaging” the Passengers—Far, far at Sea.—Tribulation among the Patriarchs—Seeking Amusement under Difficulties—Five Captains in the Ship
CHAPTER IV. The Pilgrims Becoming Domesticated—Pilgrim Life at Sea—“Horse- Billiards”—The “Synagogue”—The Writing School—Jack’s “Journal”— The “Q. C. Club”—The Magic Lantern—State Ball on Deck—Mock Trials— Charades—Pilgrim Solemnity—Slow Music—The Executive Officer Delivers an Opinion
CHAPTER V. Summer in Mid-Atlantic—An Eccentric Moon—Mr. Blucher Loses Confidence—The Mystery of “Ship Time”—The Denizens of the Deep—“Land Hoh”— The First Landing on a Foreign Shore—Sensation among the Natives— Something about the Azores Islands—Blucher’s Disastrous Dinner— The Happy Result
CHAPTER VI. Solid Information—A Fossil Community—Curious Ways and Customs—Jesuit Humbuggery—Fantastic Pilgrimizing—Origin of the Russ Pavement— Squaring Accounts with the Fossils—At Sea Again
CHAPTER VII. A Tempest at Night—Spain and Africa on Exhibition—Greeting a Majestic Stranger—The Pillars of Hercules—The Rock of Gibraltar—Tiresome Repetition—“The Queen’s Chair”—Serenity Conquered—Curiosities of the Secret Caverns—Personnel of Gibraltar—Some Odd Characters—A Private Frolic in Africa—Bearding a Moorish Garrison (without loss of life)—Vanity Rebuked—Disembarking in the Empire of Morocco
CHAPTER VIII. The Ancient City of Tangier, Morocco—Strange Sights—A Cradle of Antiquity—We become Wealthy—How they Rob the Mail in Africa—The Danger of being Opulent in Morocco
CHAPTER IX. A Pilgrim—in Deadly Peril—How they Mended the Clock—Moorish Punishments for Crime—Marriage Customs—Looking Several ways for Sunday—Shrewd, Practice of Mohammedan Pilgrims—Reverence for Cats—Bliss of being a Consul-General
CHAPTER X. Fourth of July at Sea—Mediterranean Sunset—The “Oracle” is Delivered of an Opinion—Celebration Ceremonies—The Captain’s Speech—France in Sight—The Ignorant Native—In Marseilles—Another Blunder—Lost in the Great City—Found Again—A Frenchy Scene
CHAPTER XI. Getting used to it—No Soap—Bill of Fare, Table d’hote—“An American Sir”—A Curious Discovery—The “Pilgrim” Bird—Strange Companionship—A Grave of the Living—A Long Captivity—Some of Dumas’ Heroes—Dungeon of the Famous “Iron Mask.”
CHAPTER XII. A Holiday Flight through France—Summer Garb of the Landscape—Abroad on the Great Plains—Peculiarities of French Cars—French Politeness American Railway Officials—“Twenty Minutes to Dinner!”—Why there are no Accidents—The “Old Travellers”—Still on the Wing—Paris at Last——French Order and Quiet—Place of the Bastile—Seeing the Sights—A Barbarous Atrocity—Absurd Billiards
CHAPTER XIII. More Trouble—Monsieur Billfinger—Re-Christening the Frenchman—In the Clutches of a Paris Guide—The International Exposition—Fine Military Review—Glimpse of the Emperor Napoleon and the Sultan of Turkey
CHAPTER XIV. The Venerable Cathedral of Notre-Dame—Jean Sanspeur’s Addition—Treasures and Sacred Relics—The Legend of the Cross—The Morgue—The Outrageious ‘Can-Can’—Blondin Aflame—The Louvre Palace—The Great Park—Showy Pageantry—Preservation of Noted Things
CHAPTER XV. French National Burying—Ground—Among the Great Dead—The Shrine of Disappointed Love—The Story of Abelard and Heloise—“English Spoken Here”—“American Drinks Compounded Here”—Imperial Honors to an American—The Over-estimated Grisette—Departure from Paris—A Deliberate Opinion Concerning the Comeliness of American Women
CHAPTER XVI. Versailles—Paradise Regained—A Wonderful Park—Paradise Lost—Napoleonic Strategy
CHAPTER XVII. War—The American Forces Victorious—“Home Again”—Italy in Sight The “City of Palaces”—Beauty of the Genoese Women—The “Stub-Hunters”—Among the Palaces—Gifted Guide—Church Magnificence—“Women not Admitted”—How the Genoese Live—Massive Architecture—A Scrap of Ancient History—Graves for 60,000
CHAPTER XVIII. Flying Through Italy—Marengo—First Glimpse of the Famous Cathedral—Description of some of its Wonders—A Horror Carved in Stone——An Unpleasant Adventure—A Good Man—A Sermon from the Tomb—Tons of Gold and Silver—Some More Holy Relics—Solomon’s Temple
CHAPTER XIX “Do You Wiz zo Haut can be?”—La Scala—Petrarch and Laura—Lucrezia Borgia—Ingenious Frescoes—Ancient Roman Amphitheatre—A Clever Delusion—Distressing Billiards—The Chief Charm of European Life—An Italian Bath—Wanted: Soap—Crippled French—Mutilated English—The Most Celebrated Painting in the World—Amateur Raptures—Uninspired Critics—Anecdote—A Wonderful Echo—A Kiss for a Franc
CHAPTER XX. Rural Italy by Rail—Fumigated, According to Law—The Sorrowing Englishman—Night by the Lake of Como—The Famous Lake—Its Scenery—Como compared with Tahoe—Meeting a Shipmate
CHAPTER XXI. The Pretty Lago di Lecco--A Carriage Drive in the Country--Astonishing Sociability in a Coachman--Sleepy Land--Bloody Shrines--The Heart and Home of Priestcraft--A Thrilling Mediaeval Romance--The Birthplace of Harlequin--Approaching Venice
CHAPTER XXII. Night in Venice--The “Gay Gondolier"--The Grand Fete by Moonlight--The Notable Sights of Venice--The Mother of the Republics Desolate
CHAPTER XXIII. The Famous Gondola--The Gondola in an Unromantic Aspect--The Great Square of St. Mark and the Winged Lion--Snobs, at Home and Abroad--Sepulchres of the Great Dead--A Tilt at the “Old Masters"--A Contraband Guide--The Conspiracy--Moving Again
CHAPTER XXIV. Down Through Italy by Rail--Idling in Florence--Dante and Galileo--An Ungrateful City--Dazzling Generosity--Wonderful Mosaics--The Historical Arno--Lost Again--Found Again, but no Fatted Calf Ready--The Leaning Tower of Pisa--The Ancient Duomo--The Old Original First Pendulum that Ever Swung--An Enchanting Echo--A New Holy Sepulchre--A Relic of Antiquity--A Fallen Republic--At Leghorn--At Home Again, and Satisfied, on Board the Ship--Our Vessel an Object of Grave Suspicion--Garibaldi Visited--Threats of Quarantine
CHAPTER XXV. The Works of Bankruptcy--Railway Grandeur--How to Fill an Empty Treasury--The Sumptuousness of Mother Church--Ecclesiastical Splendor--Magnificence and Misery--General Execration--More Magnificence A Good Word for the Priests--Civita Vecchia the Dismal--Off for Rome
CHAPTER XXVI. The Modern Roman on His Travels--The Grandeur of St. Peter’s--Holy Relics--Grand View from the Dome--The Holy Inquisition--Interesting Old Monkish Frauds--The Ruined Coliseum--The Coliseum in the Days of its Prime--Ancient Playbill of a Coliseum Performance--A Roman Newspaper Criticism 1700 Years Old
CHAPTER XXVII. “Butchered to Make a Roman Holiday"--The Man who Never Complained--An Exasperating Subject--Asinine Guides--The Roman Catacombs The Saint Whose Fervor Burst his Ribs--The Miracle of the Bleeding Heart--The Legend of Ara Coeli
CHAPTER XXVIII. Picturesque Horrors--The Legend of Brother Thomas--Sorrow Scientifically Analyzed--A Festive Company of the Dead--The Great Vatican Museum Artist Sins of Omission--The Rape of the Sabines--Papal Protection of Art--High Price of “Old Masters"--Improved Scripture--Scale of Rank of the Holy Personages in Rome--Scale of Honors Accorded Them--Fossilizing--Away for Naples
CHAPTER XXIX. Naples--In Quarantine at Last--Annunciation--Ascent of Mount Vesuvius--A Two Cent Community--The Black Side of Neapolitan Character--Monkish Miracles--Ascent of Mount Vesuvius Continued--The Stranger and the Hackman--Night View of Naples from the Mountain-side---Ascent of Mount Vesuvius Continued
CHAPTER XXX. Ascent of Mount Vesuvius Continued--Beautiful View at Dawn--Less Beautiful in the Back Streets--Ascent of Vesuvius Continued--Dwellings a Hundred Feet High--A Motley Procession--Bill of Fare for a Peddler’s Breakfast--Princely Salaries--Ascent of Vesuvius Continued--An Average of Prices--The wonderful “Blue Grotto"--Visit to Celebrated Localities in the Bay of Naples--The Poisoned “Grotto of the Dog"--A Petrified Sea of Lava--Ascent of Mount Vesuvius Continued--The Summit Reached--Description of the Crater--Descent of Vesuvius
CHAPTER XXXI. The Buried City of Pompeii—How Dwellings Appear that have been Unoccupied for Eighteen hundred years—The Judgment Seat—Desolation—The Footprints of the Departed—“No Women Admitted”—Theatres, Bakeshops, Schools—Skeletons preserved by the Ashes and Cinders—The Brave Martyr to Duty—Rip Van Winkle—The Perishable Nature of Fame
CHAPTER XXXII. At Sea Once More—The Pilgrims all Well—Superb Stromboli—Sicily by Moonlight—Scylla and Charybdis—The “Oracle” at Fault—Skirting the Isles of Greece Ancient Athens—Blockaded by Quarantine and Refused Permission to Enter—Running the Blockade—A Bloodless Midnight Adventure—Turning Robbers from Necessity—Attempt to Carry the Acropolis by Storm—We Fail—Among the Glories of the Past—A World of Ruined Sculpture—A Fairy Vision—Famous Localities—Retreating in Good Order—Captured by the Guards—Travelling in Military State—Safe on Board Again
CHAPTER XXXIII. Modern Greece—Fallen Greatness—Sailing Through the Archipelago and the Dardanelles—Footprints of History—The First Shoddy Contractor of whom History gives any Account—Anchored Before Constantinople—Fantastic Fashions—The Ingenious Goose-Rancher—Marvelous Cripples—The Great Mosque—The Thousand and One Columns—The Grand Bazaar of Stamboul
CHAPTER XXXIV. Scarcity of Morals and Whiskey—Slave-Girl Market Report—Commercial Morality at a Discount—The Slandered Dogs of Constantinople—Questionable Delights of Newspaperdom in Turkey—Ingenious Italian Journalism—No More Turkish Lunches Desired—The Turkish Bath Fraud—The Narghileh Fraud—Jackplaned by a Native—The Turkish Coffee Fraud
CHAPTER XXXV. Sailing Through the Bosporus and the Black Sea—“Far-Away Moses”—Melancholy Sebastopol—Hospitably Received in Russia—Pleasant English People—Desperate Fighting—Relic Hunting—How Travellers Form “Cabinets”
CHAPTER XXXVI. Nine Thousand Miles East—Imitation American Town in Russia—Gratitude that Came Too Late—To Visit the Autocrat of All the Russias
CHAPTER XXXVII. Summer Home of Royalty—Practising for the Dread Ordeal—Committee on Imperial Address—Reception by the Emperor and Family—Dresses of the Imperial Party—Concentrated Power—Counting the Spoons—At the Grand Duke’s—A Charming Villa—A Knightly Figure—The Grand Duchess—A Grand Ducal Breakfast—Baker’s Boy, the Famine-Breeder—Theatrical Monarchs a Fraud—Saved as by Fire—The Governor—General’s Visit to the Ship—Official “Style”—Aristocratic Visitors—“Munchausenizing” with Them—Closing Ceremonies
CHAPTER XXXVIII. Return to Constantinople—We Sail for Asia—The Sailors Burlesque the Imperial Visitors—Ancient Smyrna—The “Oriental Splendor” Fraud—The “Biblical Crown of Life”—Pilgrim Prophecy-Savans—Sociable Armenian Girls—A Sweet Reminiscence—“The Camels are Coming, Ha-ha!”
CHAPTER XXXIX. Smyrna’s Lions—The Martyr Polycarp—The “Seven Churches”—Remains of the Six Smyrnas—Mysterious Oyster Mine Oysters—Seeking Scenery—A Millerite Tradition—A Railroad Out of its Sphere
CHAPTER XL. Journeying Toward Ancient Ephesus—Ancient Ayassalook—The Villanous Donkey—A Fantastic Procession—Bygone Magnificence—Fragments of History—The Legend of the Seven Sleepers
CHAPTER XLI. Vandalism Prohibited—Angry Pilgrims—Approaching Holy Land!—The “Shrill Note of Preparation”—Distress About Dragomans and Transportation—The “Long Route” Adopted—In Syria—Something about Beirout—A Choice Specimen of a Greek “Ferguson”—Outfits—Hideous Horseflesh—Pilgrim “Style”—What of Aladdin’s Lamp?
CHAPTER XLII. “Jacksonville,” in the Mountains of Lebanon—Breakfasting above a Grand Panorama—The Vanished City—The Peculiar Steed, “Jericho”—The Pilgrims Progress—Bible Scenes—Mount Hermon, Joshua’s Battle Fields, etc.—The Tomb of Noah—A Most Unfortunate People
CHAPTER XLIII. Patriarchal Customs—Magnificent Baalbec—Description of the Ruins—Scribbling Smiths and Joneses—Pilgrim Fidelity to the Letter of the Law—The Revered Fountain of Baalam’s Ass
CHAPTER XLIV. Extracts from Note-Book—Mahomet’s Paradise and the Bible’s—Beautiful Damascus the Oldest City on Earth—Oriental Scenes within the Curious Old City—Damascus Street Car—The Story of St. Paul—The “Street called Straight”—Mahomet’s Tomb and St. George’s—The Christian Massacre—Mohammedan Dread of Pollution—The House of Naaman—The Horrors of Leprosy
CHAPTER XLV. The Cholera by way of Variety—Hot—Another Outlandish Procession—Pen and-Ink Photograph of “Jonesborough,” Syria—Tomb of Nimrod, the Mighty Hunter—The Stateliest Ruin of All—Stepping over the Borders of Holy-Land—Bathing in the Sources of Jordan—More “Specimen” Hunting—Ruins of Cesarea—Philippi—“On This Rock Will I Build my Church”—The People the Disciples Knew—The Noble Steed “Baalbec”—Sentimental Horse Idolatry of the Arabs
CHAPTER XLVI. Dan—Bashan—Genessaret—A Notable Panorama—Smallness of Palestine—Scraps of History—Character of the Country—Bedouin Shepherds—Glimpses of the Hoary Past—Mr. Grimes’s Bedouins—A Battle—Ground of Joshua—That Soldier’s Manner of Fighting—Barak’s Battle—The Necessity of Unlearning Some Things—Desolation
CHAPTER XLVII. “Jack’s Adventure”—Joseph’s Pit—The Story of Joseph—Joseph’s Magnanimity and Esau’s—The Sacred Lake of Genessaret—Enthusiasm of the Pilgrims—Why We did not Sail on Galilee—About Capernaum—Concerning the Saviour’s Brothers and Sisters—Journeying toward Magdela
CHAPTER XLVIII. Curious Specimens of Art and Architecture—Public Reception of the Pilgrims—Mary Magdalen’s House—Tiberias and its Queer Inhabitants—The Sacred Sea of Galilee—Galilee by Night
CHAPTER XLIX. The Ancient Baths—Ye Apparition—A Distinguished Panorama—The Last Battle of the Crusades—The Story of the Lord of Kerak—Mount Tabor—What one Sees from its Top—Memory of a Wonderful Garden—The House of Deborah the Prophetess
CHAPTER L. Toward Nazareth—Bitten By a Camel—Grotto of the Annunciation, Nazareth—Noted Grottoes in General—Joseph’s Workshop—A Sacred Bowlder—The Fountain of the Virgin—Questionable Female Beauty—Literary Curiosities
CHAPTER LI. Boyhood of the Saviour—Unseemly Antics of Sober Pilgrims—Home of the Witch of Endor—Nain—Profanation—A Popular Oriental Picture—Biblical Metaphors Becoming steadily More Intelligible—The Shuuem Miracle—The “Free Son of The Desert”—Ancient Jezrael—Jehu’s Achievements—Samaria and its Famous Siege
CHAPTER LII. Curious Remnant of the Past—Shechem—The Oldest “First Family” on Earth—The Oldest Manuscript Extant—The Genuine Tomb of Joseph—Jacob’s Well—Shiloh—Camping with the Arabs—Jacob’s Ladder—More Desolation—Ramah, Beroth, the Tomb of Samuel, The Fountain of Beira—Impatience—Approaching Jerusalem—The Holy City in Sight—Noting Its Prominent Features—Domiciled Within the Sacred Walls
CHAPTER LIII. “The Joy of the Whole Earth”—Description of Jerusalem—Church of the Holy Sepulchre—The Stone of Unction—The Grave of Jesus—Graves of Nicodemus and Joseph of Armattea—Places of the Apparition—The Finding of the There Crosses——The Legend—Monkish Impostures—The Pillar of Flagellation—The Place of a Relic—Godfrey’s Sword—“The Bonds of Christ”—“The Center of the Earth”—Place whence the Dust was taken of which Adam was Made—Grave of Adam—The Martyred Soldier—The Copper Plate that was on the Cross—The Good St. Helena—Place of the Division of the Garments—St. Dimas, the Penitent Thief—The Late Emperor Maximilian’s Contribution—Grotto wherein the Crosses were Found, and the Nails, and the Crown of Thorns—Chapel of the Mocking—Tomb of Melchizedek—Graves of Two Renowned Crusaders—The Place of the Crucifixion
CHAPTER LIV. The “Sorrowful Way”—The Legend of St. Veronica’s Handkerchief—An Illustrious Stone—House of the Wandering Jew—The Tradition of the Wanderer—Solomon’s Temple—Mosque of Omar—Moslem Traditions—“Women not Admitted”—The Fate of a Gossip—Turkish Sacred Relics—Judgment Seat of David and Saul—Genuine Precious Remains of Solomon’s Temple—Surfeited with Sights—The Pool of Siloam—The Garden of Gethsemane and Other Sacred Localities
CHAPTER LV. Rebellion in the Camp—Charms of Nomadic Life—Dismal Rumors—En Route for Jericho and The Dead Sea—Pilgrim Strategy—Bethany and the Dwelling of Lazarus—“Bedouins!”—Ancient Jericho—Misery—The Night March—The Dead Sea—An Idea of What a “Wilderness” in Palestine is—The Holy hermits of Mars Saba—Good St. Saba—Women not Admitted—Buried from the World for all Time—Unselfish Catholic Benevolence—Gazelles—The Plain of the Shepherds—Birthplace of the Saviour, Bethlehem—Church of the Nativity—Its Hundred Holy Places—The Famous “Milk” Grotto—Tradition—Return to Jerusalem—Exhausted
CHAPTER LVI. Departure from Jerusalem—Samson—The Plain of Sharon—Arrival at Joppa—Horse of Simon the Tanner—The Long Pilgrimage Ended—Character of Palestine Scenery—The Curse
CHAPTER LVII. The Happiness of being at Sea once more—“Home” as it is in a Pleasure Ship—“Shaking Hands” with the Vessel—Jack in Costume—His Father’s Parting Advice—Approaching Egypt—Ashore in Alexandria—A Deserved Compliment for the Donkeys—Invasion of the Lost Tribes of America—End of the Celebrated “Jaffa Colony”—Scenes in Grand Cairo—Shepheard’s Hotel Contrasted with a Certain American Hotel—Preparing for the Pyramids
CHAPTER LVIII. “Recherche” Donkeys—A Wild Ride—Specimens of Egyptian Modesty—Moses in the Bulrushes—Place where the Holy Family Sojourned—Distant view of the Pyramids—A Nearer View—The Ascent—Superb View from the top of the Pyramid—“Backsheesh! Backsheesh!”—An Arab Exploit—In the Bowels of the Pyramid—Strategy—Reminiscence of “Holiday’s Hill”—Boyish Exploit—The Majestic Sphynx—Things the Author will not Tell—Grand Old Egypt
CHAPTER LIX. Going Home—A Demoralized Note-Book—A Boy’s Diary—Mere Mention of Old Spain—Departure from Cadiz—A Deserved Rebuke—The Beautiful Madeiras—Tabooed—In the Delightful Bermudas—An English Welcome—Good-by to “Our Friends the Bermudians”—Packing Trunks for Home—Our First Accident—The Long Cruise Drawing to a Close—At Home—Amen
CHAPTER LX. Thankless Devotion—A Newspaper Valedictory—Conclusion
CHAPTER LXI.
CONCLUSION.


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. THE QUAKER CITY IN A STORM—FRONTPIECE
2. ILLUMINATED TITLE-PAGE-THE PILGRIM’S VISION
3. “I ‘LL PAY YOU IN PARIS"
4. THE START
5. “GOOD MORNING, SIR"
6. THE OLD PIRATE
7. DANCING UNDER DIFFICULTIES
8. THE MOCK TRIAL
9. “LAND, HO!”
10. THE CAPOTE
11. RUIN AND DESOLATION
12. PORT OF HORTA, FAYAL
13. “SEKKI-YAH"
14. BEAUTIFUL STRANGER
15. ROCK OF GIBRALTAR
16. “QUEEN’S CHAIR"
17. THE ORACLE
18. THE INTERROGATION POINT
19. GARRISON AT MALABAT
20. ENTERTAINING AN ANGEL
21. VIEW OF A STREET IN TANGIER
22. CHANGE FOR A NAPOLEON
23. THE CONSUL’S FAMILY
24. “POET LARIAT"
25. FIRST SUPPER IN FRANCE
26. PAINTING
27.  RINGING FOR SOAP
28.  “WINE, SIR!”
29.  THE PILGRIM
30.  THE PRISONER
31.  HOMELESS FRANCE
32.  RAILROAD OFFICIAL IN FRANCE
33.  “FIVE MINUTES FOR REFRESHMENTS”—AMERICA
34.  “THIRTY MINUTES FOR DINNER”—FRANCE
35.  THE OLD TRAVELLER
36.  A DECIDED SHAVE
37.  A GAS-TLY SUBSTITUTE
38.  THE THREE GUIDES
39.  “ZE SILK MAGAZIN"
40.  RETURN IN WAR PAINT
41.  NAPOLEON III
42.  ABDUL AZIZ
43.  THE MORGUE
44.  WE TOOK A WALK
45.  THE CAN-CAN
46.  GRAVES OF ABELARD AND HELOISE
47.  A PAIR OF CANONS OF 13TH CENTURY
48.  THE PRIVATE MARRIAGE
49.  AMERICAN DRINKS
50.  ROYAL HONORS TO A YANKEE
51.  THE GRISETTE
52.  FOUNTAIN AT VERSAILLES
53.  WOMEN OF GENOA
54.  PETRIFIED LACKEY
55.  PRIEST AND FRIAR
56.  STATUE OF COLUMBUS
57.  GRAVES OF SIXTY THOUSAND
58.  ROOF AND SPIRES OF CATHEDRAL AT MILAN
59.  CENTRAL DOOR OF CATHEDRAL AT MILAN
60.  INTERIOR OF CATHEDRAL AT MILAN
61.  BOYHOOD EXPERIENCE
62.  TREASURES OF THE CATHEDRAL
63.  CATHEDRAL AT MILAN
64.  LA SCALA THEATRE
65.  COPYING FROM OLD MASTERS
66.  FACIAL EXPRESSION
67.  TILE ECHO
68.  NOTE BOOK
69.  A KISS FOR A FRANC
70.  THE FUMIGATION
71.  LAKE COMO
72.  GARDEN, LAKE COMO
73 SOCIAL DRIVER
74 WAYSIDE SHRINE
75 PEACE AND HAPPINESS
76 CASTLE OF COUNT LUIGI
77 THE WICKED BROTHER
78 DISGUSTED GONDOLIER
79 CATHEDRAL OF ST. MARK
80 THE PEG
81 “GOOD-BY"
82 M’SIEUR GOR-R-DONG
83 MONUMENT TO THE DOOR
84 ST. MARK, MATHEW, JEROME BY THE OLD MASTERS
87 ST. SEBASTIAN, AND ST. UNKNOWN BY THE OLD MASTERS
89 RIALTO BRIDGE AND BRIDGE OF SIGHS
91 FLORENCE
92 THE PENSIONER
93 “I WANT TO GO HOME"
94 THE LEANING TOWER
95 THE CONTRAST
96 ITALIAN PASTIMES
97 INCENDIARY DOCUMENT
98 A ROMAN OF 1869
99 MAMERTINE PRISON
100 OLD ROMAN
101 COLISEUM OF ANCIENT ROME
102 DID NOT COMPLAIN
103 HUMBOLDT HOUSE
104 DAN
105 BRONZE STATUE
106 PENMANSHIP
107 ON A BUST
108 VAULTS OF THE CONVENT
109 DRIED CONVENT FRUITS
110 AT THE STORE
111 AT HOME
112 SOOTHING THE PILGRIMS
113 ASCENT OF MT VESUVIUS
114 BAY OF NAPLES
115 THE MUSTANG
116 ISLAND OF CAPRI
117 BLUE GROTTO
118 VESUVIUS AND BAY of NAPLES
119 THE DESCENT
120 RUINS, POMPEII
121 FORUM OF JUSTICE, POMPEII
122 HOUSE; POMPEII
123 STROMBOLI
124 VIEW OF THE ACROPOLIS, LOOKING WEST
125 “HO"
126 THE ASSAULT
127 THE CARYATIDES
128 THE PARTHENON
129 WE SIDLED, NOT RAN
130 ANCIENT ACROPOLIS
131 RUINS
132 QUEEN OF GREECE
133 PALACE AT ATHENS
134 STREET SCENE IN CONSTANTINOPLE
135 GOOSE RANCHER
136 MOSQUE of ST. SOPHIA
137 TURKISH MAUSOLEUM
138 SLANDERED DOGS
139 THE CENSOR ON DUTY
140 TURKISH BATH
141 FAR-AWAY-MOSES
142 A FRAGMENT
143 A MEMENTO
144 YALTA FROM THE EMPERORS PALACE
145 EMPEROR OF RUSSIA
146 TINSEL KING
147 SHIP EMPEROR
148 THE RECEPTION
149 STREET SCENE IN SMYRNA
150 SMYRNA
151 AN APPARENT SUCCESS
152 DRIFTING TO STARBOARD
153 A SPOILED NAP
154 ANCIENT AMPHITHEATER AT EPHESUS
155 MODERN AMPHITHEATRE AT EPHESUS
156 RUINS OF EPHESUS
157 THE JOURNEY
158 GRAVES OF THE SEVEN SLEEPERS
159 THE SELECTION
160 CAMPING OUT
161 ARABS’ TENTS
162 A GOOD FEEDER
163 INTERESTING FETE
164 SUNDAY SCHOOL GRAPES
165 AN OLD FOGY
166 RACE WITH A CAMEL
167 TEMPLE OF TILE SUN
168 RUINS OF BAALBEC
169 HEWN STONES IN QUARRY
170 MERCY
171 PATRON SAINT
172 WATER CAPRIER
173 VIEW OF DAMASCUS
174 STREET CARS OF DAMASCUS
175 FULL DRESSED TOURIST
176 IMPROMPTU HOSPITAL
177 THE HORSE “BAALBEC"
178 OAR OF BASLIAN
179 DANGEROUS ARAB
180 GRIMES ON THE WAR-PATH
181 BEDOUIN CAMP
182 HOME OF ANCIENT POMP
183 JACK
184 A DISAPPOINTED AUDIENCE
185 FIG-TREE
186 “FARE TOO HIGH"
187 SYRIAN HOUSE
188 TIBERIAS AND SEA OF GALILEE
189 THE GUARD
190 MOUNT TABOR
191 GATHERING FUEL
192 FOUNTAIN OF THE VIRGIN
193 “MADONNA-LIKE BEAUTY"
194 PUTNAM OUTDONE
195 THE BASTINADO
196 “I WEPT"
197 WANT OF DIGNITY
198 AN ORIENTAL WELL
199 ARABS SALUTING
200 FREE SONS OF THE DESERT
201 SHECHEM
202 GATE OF JERUSALEM
203 BEGGARS IN JERUSALEM
204 CHURCH OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER
205 GRAVE OF ADAM
206 VIEW OF JERUSALEM
207 THE WANDERING JEW
208 MOSQUE OF OMAR
209 AN EPIDEMIC
210 CHARGE OF BEDOUINS
211 DEAD SEA
212 GROTTO OF THE NATIVITY
213 JAFFA
214 REAR ELEVATION OF JACK
215 STREET IN ALEXANDRIA
216 VICEROY OF EGYPT
217 EASTERN MONARCH
218 MOSES S. BEACH
219 ROOM No. 15
220 THE NILOMETER
221 ASCENT OF THE PYRAMIDS
222 HIGH HOPES FRUSTRATED
223 KINGS CHAMBER IN THE PYRAMID
224 A POWERFUL ARGUMENT
225 PYRAMIDS AND SPHINX
226 THE RELIC HUNTER
227 THE MAMELUKE’S LEAP
228 WOULD NOT BE COMFORTED
229 THE TRAVELER
230 HOMEWARD BOUND
231 BAD COFFEE
232 OUR FRIENDS THE BERMUDIANS
233 CAPTAIN DUNCAN
234 FINIS






A TRAMP ABROAD

Illustrations taken from an 1880 First Edition

ILLUSTRATIONS:

1.
PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR 2.
TITIAN’S MOSES 3.
THE AUTHOR’S MEMORIES 4.
THE BLACK KNIGHT 5.
OPENING HIS VIZIER 6.
THE ENRAGED EMPEROR 7.
THE PORTIER 8.
ONE OF THOSE BOYS 9.
SCHLOSS HOTEL 10.
IN MY CAGE 11.
HEIDELBERG CASTLE 12.
HEIDELBERG CASTLE, RIVER FRONTAGE 13.
THE RETREAT 14.
JIM BAKER 15.
"A BLUE FLUSH ABOUT IT" 16.
COULD NOT SEE IT 17.
THE BEER KING 18.
THE LECTURER’S AUDIENCE 19.
INDUSTRIOUS STUDENTS 20.
IDLE STUDENT 21.
COMPANIONABLE INTERCOURSE 22.
AN IMPOSING SPECTACLE 23.
AN ADVERTISEMENT 24.
"UNDERSTANDS HIS BUSINESS" 25.
THE OLD SURGEON 26.
THE FIRST WOUND 27.
THE CASTLE COURT 28.
WOUNDED 29.
FAVORITE STREET COSTUME 30.
INEFFACEABLE SCARS 31.
PIECE OF SWORD 32.
FRENCH CALM 33.
THE CHALLENGE ACCEPTED 34.
A SEARCH 35.
HE SWOONED PONDEROUSLY 36.
I ROLLED HIM OVER 37.
THE ONE I HIRED 36.
THE MARCH TO THE FIELD 39.
THE POST OF DANGER 40.
THE RECONCILIATION 41.
AN OBJECT OF ADMIRATION 42.
WAGNER 43.
RAGING 44.
ROARING 45.
SHRIEKING 46.
A CUSTOMARY THING 47.
ONE OF THE “REST" 48.
A CONTRIBUTION BOX 49.
CONSPICUOUS 50.
TAIL PIECE 51.
ONLY A SHRIEK 52.
"HE ONLY CRY" 53.
LATE COMERS CARED FOR 54.
EVIDENTLY DREAMING 55.
"TURN ON MORE RAIN" 56.
HARRIS ATTENDING THE OPERA 57.
PAINTING MY GREAT PICTURE 58.
OUR START 59.
AN UNKNOWN COSTUME 60.
THE TOWER 61.
SLOW BUT SURE 62.
THE ROBBER CHIEF 63.
AN HONEST MAN 64.
THE TOWN BY NIGHT 65.
GENERATIONS OF BAREFEET 66.
OUR BEDROOM 67.
PRACTICING 68.
PAWING AROUND 69.
A NIGHT’S WORK 70.
LEAVING HEILBRONN 71.
THE CAPTAIN 72.
WAITING FOR THE TRAIN 73.
A DEEP AND TRANQUIL ECSTACY 74.
"WHICH ANSWERED JUST AS WELL" 75.
LIFE ON A RAFT 76.
LADY GERTRUDE 77.
MOUTH OF THE CAVERN 78.
A FATAL MISTAKE 79.
TAIL PIECE 80.
RAFTING ON THE NECKAR 81.
THE LORELEI 82.
THE LOVER’s FATE 84.
THE UNKNOWN KNIGHT 85.
THE EMBRACE 86.
PERILOUS POSTTION 87.
THE RAFT IN A STORM 88.
ALL SAFE ON SHORE 89.
"IT WAS THE CAT" 90.
TAILPIECE 91.
BREAKFAST IN THE GARDEN 162 92.
EASILY UNDERSTOOD 93.
EXPERIMENTING THROUGH HARRIS 94.
AT THE BALL ROOM DOOR 95.
THE TOWN OF DILSBERG 96.
OUR ADVANCE ON DILSBERG 97.
INSIDE THE TOWN 95.
THE OLD WELL 99.
SEND HITHER THE LORD ULRICH 100.
LEAD ME TO HER GRAVE 102.
AN EXCELLENT PILOT, ONCE 103.
SCATTERATION 104.
THE RIVER BATH 101.
ETRUSCAN TEAR JUG 106.
HENRI II. PLATE l07.
OLD BLUE CHINA 108.
A REAL ANTIQUE 109.
BRIC-A-BRAC SHOP 110.
"PUT IT THERE" 111.
THE PARSON CAPTURED 112.
TAIL PIECE 113.
A COMPREHENSIVE YAWN 114.
TESTING THE COIN 115.
BEAUTY AT THE BATH 116.
IN THE BATH 117.
JERSEY INDIANS 118.
NOT PARTICULARLY SOCIABLE 119.
BLACK FOREST GRANDEE 120.
THE GRANDEE’S DAUGHTER 121.
RICH OLD HUSS 122.
GRETCHEN 123.
PAUL HOCH 124.
HANS SCHMIDT 125.
ELECTING A NEW MEMBER 126.
OVERCOMING OBSTACLES 127.
FRIENDS 128.
PROSPECTING 129.
TAIL PIECE 130.
A GENERAL HOWL 131.
SEEKING A SITUATION 132.
STANDING GUARD 133.
RESULT OF A JOKE 134.
DESCENDING A FARM 155.
A GERMAN SABBATH 136.
AN OBJECT OF SYMPATHY 137.
A NON-CLASSICAL STYLE 138.
THE TRADITIONAL CHAMOIS 139.
HUNTING CHAMOIS THE TRUE WAY 140.
CHAMOIS HUNTER AS REPORTED 141.
MARKING ALPENSTOCKS 142.
IS SHE EIGHTEEN OR TWENTY 143.
I KNEW I WASN’T MISTAKEN 144.
HARRIS ASTONISHED 145.
TAIL PIECE 146.
THE LION OF LUCERNE 147.
HE LIKED CLOCKS 148.
"I WILL TELL YOU" 149.
COULDN’T WAIT 150.
DIDN’T CARE FOR STYLE 151.
A PAIR BETTER THAN FOUR 152.
TWO WASN’T NECESSARY 153.
JUST THE TRICK 154.
GOING TO MAKE THEM STARE 155.
NOT THROWN AWAY 156.
WHAT THE DOCTOR RECOMMENDED 157.
WANTED TO FEEL SAFE 158.
PREFERRED TO TRAMP ON FOOT 159.
DERN A DOG, ANYWAY 160.
TAIL PIECE 161.
THE GLACIER GARDEN 162.
LAKE AND MOUNTAINS (MONT PILATUS) 163.
MOUNTAIN PATHS 164.
"YOU’RE AN AMERICAN—SO AM I" 165.
ENTERPRISE 166.
THE CONSTANT SEARCHER 167.
THE MOUNTAIN BOY 168.
THE ENGLISHMAN 169.
THE JODLER 170.
ANOTHER VOCALIST 171.
THE FELSENTHOR 172.
A VIEW FROM THE STATION 173.
LOST IN THE MIST 174.
THE RIGI-KULM HOTEL 175.
WHAT AWAKENED US 176.
A SUMMIT SUNRISE 177.
TAIL PIECE 178.
EXCEEDINGLY COMFORTABLE 179.
THE SUNRISE 180.
THE RIGI-KULM 181.
AN OPTICAL ILLUSION 182.
TAIL PIECE 183.
RAILWAY DOWN THE MOUNTAIN 184.
SOURCE OF THE RHONE 185.
A GLACIER TABLE 186.
GLACIER OF GRINDELWALD 187.
DAWN ON THE MOUNTAINS 188.
TAIL PIECE 189.
NEW AND OLD STYLE 190.
ST NICHOLAS, AS A HERMIT 191.
A LANDSLIDE 192.
GOLDAU VALLEY BEFORE AND AFTER THE LANDSLIDE 193.
THE WAY THEY DO IT 194.
OUR GALLANT DRIVER 195.
A MOUNTAIN PASS 196.
"I’M OFUL DRY" 197.
IT’S THE FASHION 198.
WHAT WE EXPECTED 199.
WE MISSED THE SCENERY 200.
THE TOURISTS 201.
THE YOUNG BRIDE 202.
"IT WAS A FAMOUS VICTORY 203.
PROMENADE IN INTERLAKEN 204.
THE JUNGFRAU BY M.T. 205.
STREET IN INTERLAKEN 206.
WITHOUT A COURIER 207.
TRAVELING WITH A COURIER 208.
TAIL PIECE 209.
GRAPE AND WHEY PATIENTS 210.
SOCIABLE DRIVERS 211.
A MOUNTAIN CASCADE 212.
THE GASTERNTHAL 213.
EXHILARATING SPORT 214.
FALLS 215.
WHAT MIGHT BE 216.
AN ALPINE BOUQUET 217.
THE END OF THE WORLD 218.
THE FORGET-ME-NOT 219.
A NEEDLE OF ICE 220.
CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN 221.
SNOW CREVASSES 222.
CUTTING STEPS 223.
THE GUIDE 224.
VIEW FROM THE CLIFF 225.
GEMMI PASS AND LAKE DAUBENSEE 226.
ALMOST A TRAGEDY 227.
THE ALPINE LITTER 228.
SOCIAL BATHERS 229.
DEATH OF COUNTESS HERLINCOURT 230.
THEY’VE GOT IT ALL 231.
MODEL FOR AN EMPRESS 232.
BATH HOUSES AT LEUKE 233.
THE BATHERS AT LEUKE 234.
RATTIER MIXED UP 235.
TAIL PIECE 236.
A SUNDAY MORNING’S DEMON 237.
JUST SAVED 238.
SCENE IN VALLEY OF ZERMATT 239.
ARRIVAL AT ZERMATT 240.
FITTED OUT 241.
A FEARFUL FALL 242.
TAIL PIECE 243.
ALL READY 244.
THE MARCH 245.
THE CARAVAN 246.
THE HOOK 247.
THE DISABLED CHAPLAIN 248.
TRYING EXPERIMENTS 249.
SAVED! SAVED! 250.
TWENTY MINUTES WORK 251.
THE BLACK RAM 252.
THE MIRACLE 253.
THE NEW GUIDE 251.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHES 255.
MOUNTAIN CHALET 256.
THE GRANDSON 257.
OCCASIONLY MET WITH 258.
SUMMIT OF THE GORNER GRAT 259.
CHIEFS OF THE ADVANCE GUARD 260.
MY PICTURE OF THE MATTERHORN 261.
EVERYBODY HAD AN EXCUSE 262.
SPRUNG A LEAK 263.
A SCIENTIFIC QUESTION 264.
A TERMINAL MORAINE 265.
FRONT OF GLACIER 266.
AN OLD MORAINE 267.
GLACIER OF ZERMATT WITH LATERAL MORAINE 269.
UNEXPECTED MEETING OF FRIENDS 269.
VILLAGE OF CHAMONIX 270.
THE MATTERHORN 271.
ON THE SUMMIT 272.
ACCIDENT ON THE MATTERHORN (1865) 273.
ROPED TOGETHER 274.
STORAGE OF ANCESTORS 275.
FALLING OUT OF HIS FARM 276.
CHILD LIFE IN SWITZERLAND 277.
A SUNDAY PLAY 278.
THE COMBINATION 279.
CHILLON 280.
THE TETE NOIR 281.
MONT BLANC’S NEIGHBORS 282.
AN EXQUISITE THING 283.
A WILD RIDE 284.
SWISS PEASANT GIRL 285.
STREET IN CHAMONIX 286.
THE PROUD GERMAN 287.
THE INDIGNANT TOURIST 288.
MUSIC OF SWITZERLAND 289.
ONLY A MISTAKE 290.
A BROAD VIEW 291.
PREPARING TO START 292.
ASCENT OF MONT BLANC 293.
"WE ALL RAISED A TREMENDOUS SHOUT" 294.
THE GRANDE MULETS 295.
CABIN ON THE GRANDE MULETS 296.
KEEPING WARM 297.
TAIL PIECE 298.
TAKE IT EASY 299.
THE MER DE GLACE (MONT BLANC) 300.
TAKING TOLL 301.
A DESCENDING TOURIST 302.
LEAVING BY DILIGENCE 303.
THE SATISFIED ENGLISHMAN 301.
HIGH PRESSURE 305.
NO APOLOGY 307.
A LIVELY STREET 308.
HAVING HER FULL RIGHTS 309.
HOW SHE FOOLED US 310.
"YOU’LL TAKE THAT OR NONE" 311.
ROBBING A BEGGAR 312.
DISHONEST ITALY 313.
STOCK IN TRADE 314.
STYLE 315.
SPECIMENS FROM OLD MASTERS 316.
AN OLD MASTER 317.
THE LION OF ST MARK 318.
OH TO BE AT RRST! 319.
THE WORLD’S MASTERPIECE 320.
TAIL PIECE 321.
AESTHETIC TASTES 322.
A PRIVATE FAMILY BREAKFAST 323.
EUROPEAN CARVING 323.
A TWENTY-FOUR HOUR FIGHT 325.
GREAT HEIDELBERG TUN 326.
BISMARCK IN PRISON 327.
TAIL PIECE 600 328.
A COMPLETE WORD

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
A Tramp over Europe—On the Holsatia—Hamburg—Frankfort-on-the-Main—How it Won its Name—A Lesson in Political Economy—Neatness in Dress—Rhine Legends—“The Knave of Bergen” The Famous Ball—The Strange Knight—Dancing with the Queen—Removal of the Masks—The Disclosure—Wrath of the Emperor—The Ending
CHAPTER II
At Heidelberg—Great Stir at a Hotel—The Portier—Arrival of the Empress—The Schloss Hotel—Location of Heidelberg—The River Neckar—New Feature in a Hotel—Heidelberg Castle—View from the Hotel—A Tramp in the Woods—Meeting a Raven—Can Ravens Talk?—Laughed at and Vanquished—Language of Animals—Jim Baker—Blue-Jays
CHAPTER III
Baker’s Blue-Jay Yarn—Jay Language—The Cabin—“Hello, I reckon I’ve struck something”—A Knot Hole—Attempt to fill it—A Ton of Acorns—Friends Called In—A Great Mystery—More Jays called A Blue Flush—A Discovery—A Rich Joke—One that Couldn’t See It
CHAPTER IV
Student Life—The Five Corps—The Beet King—A Free Life—Attending Lectures—An Immense Audience—Industrious Students—Politeness of the Students—Intercourse with the Professors Scenes at the Castle Garden—Abundance of Dogs—Symbol of Blighted Love—How the Ladies Advertise
CHAPTER V
The Students’ Dueling Ground—The Dueling Room—The Sword Grinder—Frequency of the Duels—The Duelists—Protection against Injury—The Surgeon—Arrangements for the Duels—The First Duel—The First Wound—A Drawn Battle—The Second Duel—Cutting and Slashing—Interference of the Surgeon
CHAPTER VI
The Third Duel—A Sickening Spectacle—Dinner between Fights—The Last Duel—Fighting in Earnest—Faces and Heads Mutilated—Great Nerve of the Duelists—Fatal Results not Infrequent—The World’s View of these Fights
CHAPTER VII
Corps—laws and Usages—Volunteering to Fight—Coolness of the Wounded—Wounds Honorable—Newly bandaged Students around Heidelberg—Scarred Faces Abundant—A Badge of Honor—Prince Bismark as a Duelist—Statistics—Constant Sword Practice—Color of the Corps—Corps Etiquette
CHAPTER VIII
The Great French Duel—Mistaken Notions—Outbreak in the French Assembly—Calmness of M Gambetta—I Volunteer as Second—Drawing up a Will—The Challenge and its Acceptance—Difficulty in Selection of Weapons—Deciding on Distance—M. Gambetta’s Firmness—Arranging Details—Hiring Hearses—How it was Kept from the Press—March to the Field—The Post of Danger—The Duel—The Result—General Rejoicings—The only One Hurt—A Firm Resolution
CHAPTER IX
At the Theatre—German Ideal—At the Opera—The Orchestra—Howlings and Wailings—A Curious Play—One Season of Rest—The Wedding Chorus—Germans fond of the Opera—Funerals Needed —A Private Party—What I Overheard—A Gentle Girl—A Contribution—box—Unpleasantly Conspicuous
CHAPTER X
Four Hours with Wagner—A Wonderful Singer, Once—” Only a Shriek”—An Ancient Vocalist—“He Only Cry”—Emotional Germans—A Wise Custom—Late Comers Rebuked—Heard to the Last—No Interruptions Allowed—A Royal Audience—An Eccentric King—Real Rain and More of It—Immense Success—“Encore! Encore!”—Magnanimity of the King
CHAPTER XI
Lessons in Art—My Great Picture of Heidelberg Castle—Its Effect in the Exhibition—Mistaken for a Turner—A Studio—Waiting for Orders—A Tramp Decided On—The Start for Heilbronn—Our Walking Dress—“Pleasant march to you”—We Take the Rail—German People on Board—Not Understood—Speak only German and English—Wimpfen—A Funny Tower—Dinner in the Garden—Vigorous Tramping—Ride in a Peasant’s Cart—A Famous Room
CHAPTER XII
The Rathhaus—An Old Robber Knight, Gotz Von Berlichingen—His Famous Deeds—The Square Tower—A Curious old Church—A Gay Turn—out—A Legend—The Wives’ Treasures—A Model Waiter—A Miracle Performed—An Old Town—The Worn Stones
CHAPTER XIII
Early to Bed—Lonesome—Nervous Excitement—The Room We Occupied—Disturbed by a Mouse—Grow Desperate—The Old Remedy—A Shoe Thrown—Result—Hopelessly Awake—An Attempt to Dress—A Cruise in the Dark—Crawling on the Floor—A General Smash-up—Forty-seven Miles’ Travel
CHAPTER XIV
A Famous Turn—out—Raftsmen on the Neckar—The Log Rafts—The Neckar—A Sudden Idea—To Heidelberg on a Raft—Chartering a Raft—Gloomy Feelings and Conversation—Delicious Journeying—View of the Banks—Compared with Railroading
CHAPTER XV
Down the River—German Women’s Duties—Bathing as We Went—A Handsome Picture: Girls in the Willows—We Sight a Tug—Steamers on the Neckar—Dinner on Board—Legend “Cave of the Spectre “—Lady Gertrude the Heiress—The Crusader—The Lady in the Cave—A Tragedy
CHAPTER XVI
An Ancient Legend of the Rhine—“The Lorelei”—Count Hermann—Falling in Love—A Sight of the Enchantress—Sad Effect on Count Hermann—An Evening visit—A Sad Mistake—Count Hermann Drowned—The Song and Music—Different Trans lations—Curiosities in Titles
CHAPTER XVII
Another Legend—The Unconquered Monster—The Unknown Knight —His Queer Shaped Knapsack—The Knight Pitied and Advised—He Attacks the Monster—Victory for the Fire Extinguisher—The Knight rewarded—His Strange Request——Spectacles Made Popular—Danger to the Raft—Blasting Rocks—An Inglorious Death in View—Escaped—A Storm Overtakes us—GreatDanger—Man Overboard—Breakers Ahead—Springing a Leak—Ashore Safe—A General Embracing—A Tramp in the Dark—The Naturalist Tavern—A Night’s Troubles—“It is the Cat"
CHAPTER XVIII
Breakfast in a Garden—The Old Raven—Castle of Hirschhorn—Attempt to Hire a Boat—High Dutch—What You Can Find out by Enquiring—What I Found out about the Students—A good German Custom—Harris Practices It—AnEmbarrassing Position—A Nice Party—At a Ball—Stopped at the Door—Assistance at Hand and Rendered—Worthy to be an Empress
CHAPTER XIX
Arrive at Neckarsteinach—Castle of Dilsberg—A Walled Town—On a Hill—Exclusiveness of the People—A Queer Old Place—An Ancient Well—An Outlet Proved—Legend of Dilsberg Castle—The Haunted Chamber—The Betrothed’s request—The Knight’s Slumbers and Awakening—Horror of the Lover—The Wicked Jest—The Lover a Maniac—Under the Linden—Turning Pilot—Accident to the Raft—Fearful Disaster
CHAPTER XX
Good News—“Slow Freight”—Keramics—My Collection of Bric-a-brac—My Tear Jug—Henri II. Plate—Specimen of Blue China—Indifference to the Laugh of the World—I Discover an Antique En-route to Baden—Baden—Meeting an Old Acquaintance—A young American—Embryo Horse Doctor—An American, Sure—A Minister Captured
CHAPTER XXI
Baden—Baden—Energetic Girls—A Comprehensive Yawn—A Beggar’s Trick—Cool Impudence—The Bath Woman—Insolence of Shop Keepers—Taking a Bath—Early and Late Hours—Popular Belief Regarding Indians—An Old Cemetery—A Pious Hag—Curious Table Companions
CHAPTER XXII
The Black Forest—A Grandee and his Family—The Wealthy Nabob—A New Standard of Wealth—Skeleton for a New Novel—Trying Situation—The Common Council—Choosing a New Member Studying Natural History—The Ant a Fraud—Eccentricities of the Ant—His Deceit and Ignorance—A German Dish—Boiled Oranges
CHAPTER XXIII
Off for a Day’s Tramp—Tramping and Talking—Story Telling—Dentistry in Camp—Nicodemus Dodge—Seeking a Situation—A Butt for Jokes—Jimmy Finn’s Skeleton—Descending a Farm—Unexpected Notoriety
CHAPTER XXIV
Sunday on the Continent—A Day of Rest—An Incident at Church—An Object of Sympathy—Royalty at Church—Public Grounds Concert—Power and Grades of Music—Hiring a Courier
CHAPTER XXV
Lucerne—Beauty of its Lake—The Wild Chamois—A Great Error Exposed—Methods of Hunting the Chamois—Beauties of Lucerne—The Alpenstock—Marking Alpenstocks—Guessing at Nationalities—An American Party—An Unexpected Acquaintance—Getting Mixed Up—Following Blind Trails—A Happy Half—hour—Defeat and Revenge
CHAPTER XXVI
Commerce of Lucerne—Benefits of Martyrdom—A Bit of History—The Home of Cuckoo Clocks—A Satisfactory Revenge—The Alan Who Put Up at Gadsby’s—A Forgotten Story—Wanted to be Postmaster—A Tennessean at Washington—He Concluded to Stay A While—Application of the Story
CHAPTER XXVII
The Glacier Garden—Excursion on the Lake—Life on the Mountains—A Specimen Tourist—“Where’re you From?”—An Advertising Dodge—A Righteous Verdict—The Guide-book Student—I Believe that’s All
CHAPTER XXVIII
The Rigi-Kulm—Its Ascent—Stripping for Business—A Mountain Lad—An English Tourist—Railroad up the Mountain—Villages and Mountain—The Jodlers—About Ice Water—The Felsenthor—Too Late—Lost in the Fog—The Rigi-Kulm Hotel—The Alpine Horn—Sunrise at Night
CHAPTER XXIX
Everything Convenient—Looking for a Western Sunrise—Mutual Recrimination—View from the Summit—Down the Mountain—Railroading—Confidence Wanted and Acquired
CHAPTER XXX
A Trip by Proxy—A Visit to the Furka Regions—Deadman’s Lake—Source of the Rhone—Glacier Tables—Storm in the Mountains—At Grindelwald—Dawn on the Mountains—An Explanation Required—Dead Language—Criticism of Harris’s Report
CHAPTER XXXI
Preparations for a Tramp—From Lucerne to Interlaken—The Brunig Pass—Modern and Ancient Chalets—Death of Pontius Pilate—Hermit Home of St Nicholas—Landslides—Children Selling Refreshments—How they Harness a Horse—A Great Man—Honors to a Hero—A Thirsty Bride—For Better or Worse—German Fashions—Anticipations—Solid Comfort—An Unsatisfactory \ Awakening—What we had Lost—Our Surroundings
CHAPTER XXXII
The Jungfrau Hotel—A Whiskered Waitress—An Arkansas Bride—Perfection in Discord—A Famous Victory—A Look from a Window—About the Jungfrau
CHAPTER XXXIII
The Giesbach Falls—The Spirit of the Alps—Why People Visit Them—Whey and Grapes as Medicines—The Kursaal—A Formidable Undertaking—From Interlaken to Zermatt on Foot—We Concluded to take a Buggy—A Pair of Jolly Drivers—We meet with Companions—A Cheerful Ride—Kandersteg Valley—An Alpine Parlor—Exercise and Amusement—A Race with a Log
CHAPTER XXXIV
An Old Guide—Possible Accidents—Dangerous Habitation—Mountain Flowers—Embryo Lions—Mountain Pigs—The End of The World—Ghastly Desolation—Proposed Adventure—Reading-up Adventures—Ascent of Monte Rosa—Precipices and Crevasses—Among the Snows—Exciting Experiences—lee Ridges—The Summit—Adventures Postponed
CHAPTER XXXV
A New Interest—Magnificent Views—A Mule’s Prefereoces—Turning Mountain Corners—Terror of a Horse—Lady Tourists—Death of a young Countess—A Search for a Hat—What We Did Find—Harris’s Opinion of Chamois—A Disappointed Man—A Giantess—Model for an Empress—Baths at Leuk—Sport in the Water—The Gemmi Precipices—A Palace for an Emperor—The Famous Ladders—Considerably Mixed Up—Sad Plight of a Minister
CHAPTER XXXVI
Sunday Church Bells—A Cause of Profanity—A Magnificent Glacier—Fault Finding by Harris—Almost an Accident—Selfishness of Harris—Approaching Zermatt—The Matterhorn—Zermatt—Home of Mountain Climbers—Fitted out for Climbing—A Fearful Adventure —Never Satisfied
CHAPTER XXXVII
A Calm Decision—“I Will Ascend the Riffelberg”—Preparations for the Trip—All Zermatt on the Alert—Schedule of Persons and Things—An Unprecedented Display—A General Turn—out—Ready for a Start—The Post of Danger—The Advance Directed—Grand Display of Umbrellas—The First Camp—Almost a Panic—Supposed to be Lost—The First Accident—A Chaplain Disabled—An Experimenting Mule—Good Effects of a Blunder—Badly Lost—A Reconnoiter—Mystery and Doubt—Stern Measures Taken—A Black Ram—Saved by a Miracle—The Guide’s Guide
CHAPTER XXXVIII
Our Expedition Continued—Experiments with the Barometer—Boiling Thermometer—Barometer Soup—An Interesting Scientific Discovery—Crippling a Latinist—A Chaplain Injured—Short of Barkeepers—Digging a Mountain Cellar—A Young American Specimen—Somebody’s Grandson—Arrival at Riffelberg Botel—Ascent of Gorner Grat—Faith in Thermometers—The Matterhorn
CHAPTER XXXIX
Guide Books—Plans for the Return of the Expedition—A Glacier Train—Parachute Descent from Gorner Grat—Proposed Honors to Harris Declined—All had an Excuse—A Magnificent Idea Abandoned—Descent to the Glacier—A Supposed Leak—A Slow Train—The Glacier Abandoned—Journey to Zermatt—A Scientific Question
CHAPTER XL
Glaciers—Glacier Perils—Moraines—Terminal Moraines—Lateral Moraines—Immense Size of Glacier—Traveling Glacier——General Movements of Glaciers—Ascent of Mont Blacc—Loss of Guides—Finding of Remains—Meeting of Old Friends—The Dead and Living—Proposed Museum—The Relics at Chamonix
CHAPTER XLI
The Matterhorn Catastrophe of 1563—Mr Whymper’s Narrative—Ascent of the Matterhorn—The Summit—The Matterhorn Conquered—The Descent Commenced—A Fearful Disaster—Death of Lord Douglas and Two Others—The Graves of the Two
CHAPTER XLII
Switzerland—Graveyard at Zermatt—Balloting for Marriage—Farmers as Heroes—Falling off a Farm—From St Nicholas to Visp—Dangerous Traveling—Children’s Play—The Parson’s Children—A Landlord’s Daughter—A Rare Combination—Ch iIIon—Lost Sympathy—Mont Blanc and its Neighbors—Beauty of Soap Bubbles—A Wild Drive—The King of Drivers—Benefit of getting Drunk
CHAPTER XLIII
Chamonix—Contrasts—Magnificent Spectacle—The Guild of Guides—The Guide—in—Chief—The Returned Tourist—Getting Diploma—Rigid Rules—Unsuccessful Efforts to Procure a Diploma—The Record-Book—The Conqueror of Mont Blanc—Professional Jealousy —Triumph of Truth—Mountain Music—Its Effect—A Hunt for a Nuisance
CHAPTER XLIV
Looking at Mont Blanc—Telescopic Effect—A Proposed Trip—Determination and Courage—The Cost all counted——Ascent of Mont Blanc by Telescope—Safe and Rapid Return—Diplomas Asked for and Refused—Disaster of 1866—The Brave Brothers—Wonderful Endurance and Pluck—Love Making on Mont Blanc—First Ascent of a Woman—Sensible Attire
CHAPTER XLV
A Catastrophe which Cost Eleven Lives—Accident of 1870—A Party of Eleven—A Fearful Storm—Note-books of the Victims—Within Five Minutes of Safety—Facing Death Resignedly
CHAPTER XLVI
The Hotel des Pyramids—The Glacier des Bossons—One of the Shows—Premeditated Crime—Saved Again—Tourists Warned—Advice to Tourists—The Two Empresses—The Glacier Toll Collector—Pure Ice Water—Death Rate of the World—Of Various Cities—A Pleasure Excursionist—A Diligence Ride—A Satisfied Englishman
CHAPTER XLVII
Geneva—Shops of Geneva—Elasticity of Prices—Persistency of Shop-Women—The High Pressure System—How a Dandy was brought to Grief—American Manners—Gallantry—Col Baker of London—Arkansaw Justice—Safety of Women in America—Town of Chambery—A Lively Place—At Turin—A Railroad Companion—An Insulted Woman—City of Turin—Italian Honesty—A Small Mistake —Robbing a Beggar Woman
CHAPTER XLVIII
In Milan—The Arcade—Incidents we Met With—The Pedlar—Children—The Honest Conductor—Heavy Stocks of Clothing—The Quarrelsome Italians—Great Smoke and Little Fire—The Cathedral—Style in Church—The Old Masters—Tintoretto’s great Picture—Emotional Tourists—Basson’s Famed Picture—The Hair Trunk
CHAPTER XLIX
In Venice—St Mark’s Cathedral—Discovery of an Antique—The Riches of St Mark’s—A Church Robber—Trusting Secrets to a Friend —The Robber Hanged—A Private Dinner—European Food
CHAPTER L
Why Some things Are—Art in Rome and Florence—The Fig Leaf Mania—Titian’s Venus—Difference between Seeing and Describing A Real work of Art—Titian’s Moses—Home
APPENDIX
A—The Portier analyzed
B—Hiedelberg Castle Described
C—The College Prison and Inmates
D—The Awful German Language
E—Legends of the Castle
F—The Journals of Germany






A GILDED AGE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee Land—He Decides to Remove to Missouri
CHAPTER II. He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay
CHAPTER III Uncle Daniel’s Apparition and PrayeR
CHAPTER IV The Steamboat Explosion
CHAPTER V Adoption of the Little Girl Laura—Arrival at Missouri—Reception by Colonel Beriah Sellers
CHAPTER VI Trouble and Darkness in the Hawkins Family—Proposed Sale of the Tennessee Land
CHAPTER VII Colonel Sellers at Home—His Wonderful Clock and Cure for Rheumatism
CHAPTER VIII Colonel Sellers Makes Known His Magnificent Speculation Schemes and Astonishes Washington Hawkins
CHAPTER IX Death of Judge Hawkins
CHAPTER X Laura Hawkins Discovers a Mystery in Her Parentage and Grows Morbid Under the Village Gossip
CHAPTER XI A Dinner with Col Sellers—Wonderful Effects of Raw Turnips
CHAPTER XII Philip Sterling and Henry Brierly—Arrangements to Go West as Engineers
CHAPTER XIII Rail—Road Contractors and Party Traveling—Philip and Harry form the Acquaintance of Col Sellers
CHAPTER XIV Ruth Bolton and Her Parents
CHAPTER XV Visitors of the Boltons—Mr Bigler “Sees the Legislature”—Ruth Bolton Commences Medical Studies
CHAPTER XVI The Engineers Detained at St Louis—Off for Camp—Reception by Jeff
CHAPTER XVII The Engineer Corps Arrive at Stone’s Landing
CHAPTER XVIII Laura and Her Marriage to Colonel Selby—Deserted and Returns to Hawkeye
CHAPTER XIX Harry Brierly Infatuated With Laura and Proposes She Visit Washington
CHAPTER XX Senator Abner Dilwortliy Visits Hawkeye—Addresses the People and Makes the Acquaintance of Laura 186
CHAPTER XXI Ruth Bolton at Fallkill Seminary—The Montagues—Ruth Becomes Quite Gay—Alice Montague
CHAPTER XXII Philip and Harry Visit Fallkill—Harry Does the Agreeable to Ruth
CHAPTER XXIII Harry at Washington Lobbying For An Appropriation For Stone’s Landing —Philip in New York Studying Engineering
CHAPTER XXIV Washington and Its Sights—The Appropriation Bill Reported From the Committee and Passed
CHAPTER XXV Energetic Movements at Stone’s Landing—Everything Booming—A Grand Smash Up
CHAPTER XXVI The Boltons—Ruth at Home—Visitors and Speculations
CHAPTER XXVII Col Sellers Comforts His Wife With His Views on the Prospects
CHAPTER XXVIII Visit to Headquarters in Wall Street—How Appropriations Are Obtained and Their Cost
CHAPTER XXIX Philip’s Experience With the Rail—Road Conductor—Surveys His Mining Property
CHAPTER XXX Laura and Col Sellers Go To Washington On Invitation of Senator Dilworthy
CHAPTER XXXI Philip and Harry at the Boltons’—Philip Seriously Injured—Ruth’s First Case of Surgery
CHAPTER XXXII Laura Becomes a Famous Belle at Washington
CHAPTER XXXIII Society in Washington—The Antiques, the Parvenus, and the Middle Aristocracy
CHAPTER XXXIV Grand Scheme For Disposing of the Tennessee Land—Laura and Washington Hawkins Enjoying the Reputation of Being Millionaires
CHAPTER XXXV About Senators—Their Privileges and Habits
CHAPTER XXXVI An Hour in a Book Store
CHAPTER XXXVII Representative Buckstone and Laura’s Strategic Coquetry
CHAPTER XXXVIII Reception Day in Washington—Laura Again Meets Col. Selby and the Effect Upon Her
CHAPTER XXXIX Col. Selby Visits Laura and Effects a Reconciliation
CHAPTER XL Col. Sellers’ Career in Washington—Laura’s Intimacy With Col. Selby is Talked About
CHAPTER XLI Harry Brierly Becomes Entirely Infatuated With Laura—Declares His Love and Gets Laughed At
CHAPTER XLII How The Hon Mr Trollop Was Induced to Vote For Laura’s Bill
CHAPTER XLIII Progress of the Bill in the House
CHAPTER XLIV Philip in Washington—Visits Laura
CHAPTER XLV The Passage of the Bill in the House of Representatives
CHAPTER XLVI Disappearance of Laura, and Murder of Col. Selby in New York
CHAPTER XLVII Laura in the Tombs and Her Visitors
CHAPTER XLVIII Mr Bolton Says Yes Again—Philip Returns to the Mines
CHAPTER XLIX The Coal Vein Found and Lost Again—Philip and the Boltons—Elated and Then Cruelly Disappointed 443
CHAPTER L Philip Visits Fallkill and Proposes Studying Law With Mr Montague—The Squire Invests in the Mine—Ruth Declares Her Love for Philip
CHAPTER LI Col Sellers Enlightens Washington Hawkins on the Customs of Congress
CHAPTER LII How Senator Dilworthy Advanced Washington’s Interests
CHAPTER LIII Senator Dilworthy Goes West to See About His Re—election—He Becomes a Shining Light
CHAPTER LIV The Trial of Laura for Murder
CHAPTER LV The Trial Continued—Evidence of Harry Brierly
CHAPTER LVI The Trial Continued—Col Sellers on the Stand and Takes Advantage of the Situation
CHAPTER LVII The Momentous Day—Startling News—Dilworthy Denounced as a Briber and Defeated—The Bill Lost in the Senate
CHAPTER LVIII Verdict, Not Guilty !—Laura Free and Receives Propositions to Lecture—Philip back at the Mines
CHAPTER LIX The Investigation of the Dilworthy Bribery Case and Its Results
CHAPTER LX Laura Decides on her Course—Attempts to Lecture and Fails—Found Dead in her Chair
CHAPTER LXI Col Sellers and Washington Hawkins Review the Situation and Leave Washington
CHAPTER LXII Philip Discouraged—One More Effort—Finds Coal at Last
CHAPTER LXIII Philip Leaves Ilium to see Ruth—Ruth Convalescent—Alice
APPENDIX

ILLUSTRATIONS

FRONTPIECE COL. SELLERS FEEDING HIS FAMILY ON EXPECTATIONS 1.  
CONTEMPLATION 2.  
THE SQUIRE’s HOUSE 3.  
THE U. S. MAIL 4.  
OBEDSTOWN MALES 5.  
HURRYING 6.  
THE SQUIRE’S KITCHEN 7.  
"FOR GOODNESS SAKE SI" 8.  
THE LAST COG WHEEL 9.  
GONE UP 10.  
TAIL PIECE 11.  
THE ORPHANS LAST GIFT 12.  
MRS HAWKINS AND CLAY AT THE GRAVE OF HIS MOTHER 13.  
"CHILDREN, DAR’S SUMFIN’ A COMIN 14.  
"HEAH I IS, LORD, HEAH I IS!” 15.  
TAIL PIECE 16.  
NOT ENCOURAGED 17.  
SHE’S GAINING 18.  
"BY THE MARK TWAIN!” 19.  
FAST TOGETHER 20.  
ONE OF THE VICTIMS 21.  
THE PROCESSION—FORWARD MARCH! 22.  
THE HAPPY WIFE 23.  
LAURA 24.  
READY TO SELL 25.  
STOCK RISING 26.  
A FAMILY COUNCIL 27.  
TAIL PIECE 28.  
ATTEMPTED CORNER IN SPECIE 29.  
A BRILLIANT IDEA 30.  
BIG THINGS SHOWN UP 31.  
COL. SELLERS BLOWING BUBBLES FOR WASHINGTON 32.  
GEN BOSWELL’S OFFICE 33.  
TAIL PIECE 34.  
CONSOLATION 35.  
THE DYING FATHER 36.  
TAIL PIECE 37.  
LAURA SEEKING POR EVIDENCES OF HER BIRTH 38.  
EVER TRUE 39.  
A HEALTHY MEAL 40.  
PHILIP AT THE THEATRE 41.  
WHAT PHILIP LEARNED AT COLLEGE 42.  
THE DELEGATE’S INTERESTING GAME 43.  
THE PERSON OF IMPORTANCE 44.  
"NOT THAT" 45.  
RUTH’S MOTHER MAKES ENQUIRIES 46.  
THE LETTER 47.  
CARING FOR THE POOR 48.  
ANATOMICAL INVESTIGATIONS 49.  
RUTH LOOKING AT THE “NEW ONE” BY CANDLE LIGHT 60.  
"ONLY FOR YOU, BRIERLY" 51.  
AN ACCLIMATED MAN 51.  
NO THANKS! GOOD BYE! 52.  
"BRESS YOU, CHILE, YOU DAR NOW" 53.  
CAMP LIFE 54.  
STRAIGHT FROM THE SHOULDER 55.  
JEFF THOMPSON AS A NIGHTINGALE 56.  
BOUND FOR STONE’S LANDING 57.  
STONE’S LANDING 58.  
WAITING FOR A RAILROAD 59.  
"IT AIN’T THERE" 60.  
TAIL PIECE 61.  
CAPTURE OF WASHINGTON 62.  
LAURA SWOONED 63.  
TAILPIECE 64.  
NOT EASILY REFERRED 65.  
ORDER, GENTLEMEN 66.  
THE SENATOR’S WALK 67.  
RESIDENCE OF SQUIRE MONTAGUE 68.  
INSIDE THE MANSION 69.  
RUTH DISSIPATING 70.  
TAIL PIECE 71.  
ANTICIPATION 72.  
REALITY 73.  
PHILIP HEARS HARRY ENTERTAINING RUTH 74.  
AN ENTERTAINING FELLOW 75.  
HARRY EXPLAINS BEFORE SENATE COMMITTEE 76.  
PHILIP STUDYING 77.  
"KEEP OUT OF HERE, SIR!” 78.  
AN OLD ONE 79.  
A PROMENADE OUTFIT 80.  
REARED BY A GRATEFUL COUNTRY 81.  
BENEFIT OF POLITICAL INFLUENCE 82.  
TAIL PIECE 83.  
VISIONS OF A HAPPY MAN 84.  
EXODUS OF THE NATIVES 85.  
HARRY BRIERLY FLIES FROM THE MOB 86.  
ENJOYING THE BONFIRE 87.  
BROTHER PLUM 88.  
RUTH AT HOME 89.  
MAP OF THE SALT LICK BRANCH OF THE PACIFIC R. R. 90.  
RESULT OF A STRAIGHT LINE 91.  
AT HEADQUARTERS 92.  
TOUCHING A WEAK SPOT 93.  
CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE, $10,000, 94.  
MALE LOBBYIST, $3,000 255 95.  
FEMALE LOBBYIST, $3,000 96.  
HIGH MORAL SENATOR, $3,000 97.  
COUNTRY MEMBER, $500 98.  
DOCUMENTARY PROOF 99.  
COLONEL SELLERS DESPONDENT 100.  
TAIL PIECE 101.  
THE MONARCH OF ALL HE SURVEYS 102.  
PHILIP THRUST FROM THE R. R. CAR 103.  
THE JUSTICE 104.  
"MINE INN" 105.  
A PLEASING LANDLORD 106.  
PHILIP HIRED THREE WOODSMEN 107.  
TAIL PIECE 108.  
TAIL PIECE 109.  
BRO. BALAAM 110.  
THE FIRE PANIC 111.  
RUTH ASSISTS IN DRESSING PHILIP’S ARM 112.  
THE FIRST RECEPTION 113.  
VANITY COLLAPSED 114.  
THE ATTACHES OF THE ANTIQUES 115.  
HON. OLIVER HIGGINS 116.  
PAT O’RILEY AND THE “OULD WOMAN" 117.  
HON. P. OREILLE AND LADY 118.  
AN UNMISTAKABLE POTATO MOUTH 119.  
THE THREE PATIENTS 120.  
TAIL PIECE 121.  
DELIBERATE PERSECUTION 122.  
"IT IS ONLY ME" 123.  
"ALL CONGRESSMEN DO THAT" 124.  
A TRICK WORTH KNOWING 125.  
COL. SELLERS ENLIGHTENING THE BOHEMIANS 126.  
LAURA IN THE BOOK STORE 127.  
VERY AGREEABLE 128.  
PLAYING TO WIN 129.  
SHE SAID “PARDON" 130.  
"IT’S HE! IT’S HE!” 131.  
REFLECTION 132.  
ONCE MORE FACE TO FACE 133.  
COL. SELBY KNEELS AND KISSES HER HAND 134.  
JOLLY GOOD COMPANY 135.  
SUPPER OR BREAKFAST? 136.  
TAIL PIECE 137.  
A LADY-KILLER TAMED 138.  
CONSUMING LOVE 139.  
A CONVERT TO WOMEN’S RIGHTS 140.  
OPENING NEGOTIATIONS 141.  
NOT JUST YET 142.  
WELL POSTED 143.  
MR. TROLLOP THINKS IT OVER 144.  
DILWORTHY GIVES LAURA HIS BLESSING 145.  
UNNECESSARY PRECAUTION 146.  
WHERE THE PROTECTION IS NEEDED 147.  
AN OBJECT OF SYMPATHY 148.  
CHILDREN OF HOPE 149.  
THE EDITOR 150.  
PHILIP LEAVING LAURA 151.  
CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE 152.  
THE HOUSE 153.  
COL SELLERS ASLEEP IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 154.  
A HEARTY SHAKE 155.  
SENATOR DILWORTHY TRANQUIL 156.  
"SHE AIN’T DAH, SAR" 157.  
AS THE WITNESSES DESCRIBED IT 158.  
THE LEARNED DOCTORS 159.  
IMPORTANT BUSINESS 160.  
COL. SELLERS AND WASHINGTON IN LAURA’S CELL 161.  
PROMISED PATRONAGE 162.  
NO LOVE LIKE A MOTHER’S 163.  
CLEANED OUT BUT NOT CRUSHED 164.  
THE LANDLORD TAKING LESSONS 165.  
TAILPIECE 166.  
"WE’VE STRUCK IT" 167.  
THE MINE AT ILIUM 168.  
THE HERMIT 169.  
TAIL PIECE 110.  
ONE CHANCE OPEN 171.  
WHAT HE EXPECTED TO BE 172.  
ALAS! POOR ALICE 173.  
HOW HE WAS DRAWN IN 174.  
EVERYTHING 175.  
TAIL PIECE 176.  
"COME NOW, LETS CHEER UP" 177.  
A SHINING EXAMPLE 178.  
THE SEWING SOCIETY DODGE 179.  
DILWORTHY ADDRESSES A SUNDAY SCHOOL 180.  
TAIL PIECE 181.  
THE JUDGE 182.  
LAURA ON TRIAL 183.  
MICHAEL LANIGAN 184.  
PATRICK COUGHLIN 185.  
ETHAN DOBB 186.  
MR HICKS 187.  
SEARCH FOR A FATHER 158.  
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF A LULL 189.  
TERM EXPIRED 190.  
RE-ELECTED 191.  
THE “FAITHFUL OLD HAND" 192.  
A FIRE BRAND 193.  
TAIL PIECE 194.  
COL. SELLERS AND WASHINGTON RETURN HOME AFTER THE VOTE 195.  
A COURT-IN SCENE 196.  
POPULAR ENDORSEMENT 197.  
ONE OF THE INSULTED MEMBERS 195.  
TOUCHED BY THE SIRUGGLES OF THE POOR 199.  
MR NOBLE ASKS QUESTIONS 200.  
THE WORN OUT STYLE OF SENATOR 201.  
THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE 202.  
THE LAST LINK BROKEN 203.  
THE TERRIBLE ORDEAL 204.  
RETROSPECTION 205.  
GOOD-BYE TO WASHINGTON 206.  
TAIL PIECE 207.  
THE PARTING BLAST OFFERED 208.  
THE LAST BLAST 209.  
STRUCK IT AT LAST 210.  
THE RICH PROPRIETOR 211.  
THE SICK CHAMBER 212.  
ALICE






FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. The Party—Across America to Vancouver—On Board the Warrimo—Steamer Chairs—The Captain—Going Home under a Cloud—A Gritty Purser—The Brightest Passenger—Remedy for Bad Habits—The Doctor and the Lumbago—A Moral Pauper—Limited Smoking—Remittance-men.
CHAPTER II. Change of Costume—Fish, Snake, and Boomerang Stories—Tests of Memory—A Brahmin Expert—General Grant’s Memory—A Delicately Improper Tale
CHAPTER III. Honolulu—Reminiscences of the Sandwich Islands—King Liholiho and His Royal Equipment—The Tabu—The Population of the Island—A Kanaka Diver—Cholera at Honolulu—Honolulu; Past and Present—The Leper Colony
CHAPTER IV. Leaving Honolulu—Flying-fish—Approaching the Equator—Why the Ship Went Slow—The Front Yard of the Ship—Crossing the Equator—Horse Billiards or Shovel Board—The Waterbury Watch—Washing Decks—Ship Painters—The Great Meridian—The Loss of a Day—A Babe without a Birthday
CHAPTER V. A lesson in Pronunciation—Reverence for Robert Burns—The Southern Cross—Troublesome Constellations—Victoria for a Name—Islands on the Map—Alofa and Fortuna—Recruiting for the Queensland Plantations—Captain Warren’s NoteBook—Recruiting not thoroughly Popular
CHAPTER VI. Missionaries Obstruct Business—The Sugar Planter and the Kanaka—The Planter’s View—Civilizing the Kanaka—The Missionary’s View—The Result—Repentant Kanakas—Wrinkles—The Death Rate in Queensland
CHAPTER VII. The Fiji Islands—Suva—The Ship from Duluth—Going Ashore—Midwinter in Fiji—Seeing the Governor—Why Fiji was Ceded to England—Old time Fijians—Convicts among the Fijians—A Case Where Marriage was a Failure—Immortality with Limitations
CHAPTER VIII. A Wilderness of Islands—Two Men without a Country—A Naturalist from New Zealand—The Fauna of Australasia—Animals, Insects, and Birds—The Ornithorhynchus—Poetry and Plagiarism
CHAPTER IX. Close to Australia—Porpoises at Night—Entrance to Sydney Harbor—The Loss of the Duncan Dunbar—The Harbor—The City of Sydney—Spring-time in Australia—The Climate—Information for Travelers—The Size of Australia—A Dust-Storm and Hot Wind
CHAPTER X. The Discovery of Australia—Transportation of Convicts—Discipline—English Laws, Ancient and Modern—Flogging Prisoners to Death—Arrival of Settlers—New South Wales Corps—Rum Currency—Intemperance Everywhere—$100,000 for One Gallon of Rum—Development of the Country—Immense Resources
CHAPTER XI. Hospitality of English-speaking People—Writers and their Gratitude—Mr. Gane and the Panegyrics—Population of Sydney An English City with American Trimming—“Squatters”—Palaces and Sheep Kingdoms—Wool and Mutton—Australians and Americans—Costermonger Pronunciation—England is “Home”—Table Talk—English and Colonial Audiences
CHAPTER XII. Mr. X., a Missionary—Why Christianity Makes Slow Progress in India—A Large Dream—Hindoo Miracles and Legends—Sampson and Hanuman—The Sandstone Ridge—Where are the Gates?
CHAPTER XIII. Public Works in Australasia—Botanical Garden of Sydney—Four Special Socialties—The Government House—A Governor and His Functions—The Admiralty House—The Tour of the Harbor—Shark Fishing—Cecil Rhodes’ Shark and his First Fortune—Free Board for Sharks.
CHAPTER XIV. Bad Health—To Melbourne by Rail—Maps Defective—The Colony of Victoria—A Round-trip Ticket from Sydney—Change Cars, from Wide to Narrow Gauge, a Peculiarity at Albury—Customs-fences—“My Word”—The Blue Mountains—Rabbit Piles—Government R. R. Restaurants—Duchesses for Waiters—“Sheep-dip”—Railroad Coffee—Things Seen and Not Seen
CHAPTER XV. Wagga-Wagga—The Tichborne Claimant—A Stock Mystery—The Plan of the Romance—The Realization—The Henry Bascom Mystery—Bascom Hall—The Author’s Death and Funeral
CHAPTER XVI. Melbourne and its Attractions—The Melbourne Cup Races—Cup Day—Great Crowds—Clothes Regardless of Cost—The Australian Larrikin—Is He Dead?—Australian Hospitality—Melbourne Wool-brokers—The Museums—The Palaces—The Origin of Melbourne
CHAPTER XVII. The British Empire—Its Exports and Imports—The Trade of Australia—To Adelaide—Broken Hill Silver Mine—A Roundabout road—The Scrub and its Possibilities for the Novelist—The Aboriginal Tracker—A Test Case—How Does One Cow-Track Differ from Another?
CHAPTER XVIII. The Gum Trees—Unsociable Trees—Gorse and Broom—A universal Defect—An Adventurer—Wanted L200, got L20,000,000—A Vast Land Scheme—The Smash-up—The Corpse Got Up and Danced—A Unique Business by One Man—Buying the Kangaroo Skin—The Approach to Adelaide—Everything Comes to Him who Waits—A Healthy Religious sphere—What is the Matter with the Specter?
CHAPTER XIX. The Botanical Gardens—Contributions from all Countries—The Zoological Gardens of Adelaide—The Laughing Jackass—The Dingo—A Misnamed Province—Telegraphing from Melbourne to San Francisco—A Mania for Holidays—The Temperature—The Death Rate—Celebration of the Reading of the Proclamation of 1836—Some old Settlers at the Commemoration—Their Staying Powers—The Intelligence of the Aboriginal—The Antiquity of the Boomerang
CHAPTER XX. A Caller—A Talk about Old Times—The Fox Hunt—An Accurate Judgment of an Idiot—How We Passed the Custom Officers in Italy
CHAPTER XXI. The “Weet-Weet”—Keeping down the Population—Victoria—Killing the Aboriginals—Pioneer Days in Queensland—Material for a Drama—The Bush—Pudding with Arsenic—Revenge—A Right Spirit but a Wrong Method—Death of Donga Billy
CHAPTER XXII. Continued Description of Aboriginals—Manly Qualities—Dodging Balls—Feats of Spring—Jumping—Where the Kangaroo Learned its Art—Well Digging—Endurance—Surgery—Artistic Abilities—Fennimore Cooper’s Last Chance—Australian Slang
CHAPTER XXIII. To Horsham (Colony of Victoria)—Description of Horsham—At the Hotel—Pepper Tree-The Agricultural College, Forty Pupils—High Temperature—Width of Road in Chains, Perches, etc.—The Bird with a Forgettable Name—The Magpie and the Lady—Fruit Trees—Soils—Sheep Shearing—To Stawell—Gold Mining Country—$75,000 per Month Income and able to Keep House—Fine Grapes and Wine—The Dryest Community on Earth—The Three Sisters—Gum Trees and Water
CHAPTER XXIV. Road to Ballarat—The City—Great Gold Strike, 1851—Rush for Australia—“Great Nuggets”—Taxation—Revolt and Victory—Peter Lalor and the Eureka Stockade—“Pencil Mark”—Fine Statuary at Ballarat—Population—Ballarat English
CHAPTER XXV. Bound for Bendigo—The Priest at Castlemaine—Time Saved by Walking—Description of Bendigo—A Valuable Nugget—Perseverence and Success—Mr. Blank and His Influence—Conveyance of an Idea—I Had to Like the Irishman—Corrigan Castle, and the Mark Twain Club—My Bascom Mystery Solved
CHAPTER XXVI. Where New Zealand Is—But Few Know—Things People Think They Know—The Yale Professor and His Visitor from N. Z.
CHAPTER XXVII. The South Pole Swell—Tasmania—Extermination of the Natives—The Picture Proclamation—The Conciliator—The Formidable Sixteen
CHAPTER XXVIII. When the Moment Comes the Man Appears—Why Ed. Jackson called on Commodore Vanderbilt—Their Interview—Welcome to the Child of His Friend—A Big Time but under Inspection—Sent on Important Business—A Visit to the Boys on the Boat
CHAPTER XXIX. Tasmania, Early Days—Description of the Town of Hobart—An Englishman’s Love of Home Surroundings—Neatest City on Earth—The Museum—A Parrot with an Acquired Taste—Glass Arrow Beads—Refuge for the Indigent too healthy
CHAPTER XXX. Arrival at Bluff, N. Z.—Where the Rabbit Plague Began—The Natural Enemy of the Rabbit—Dunedin—A Lovely Town—Visit to Dr. Hockin—His Museum—A Liquified Caterpillar—The Unperfected Tape Worm—The Public Museum and Picture Gallery
CHAPTER XXXI. The Express Train—“A Hell of a Hotel at Maryborough”—Clocks and Bells—Railroad Service.
CHAPTER XXXII. Description of the Town of Christ Church—A Fine Museum—Jade-stone Trinkets—The Great Moa—The First Maori in New Zealand—Women Voters—“Person” in New Zealand Law Includes Woman—Taming an Ornithorhynchus—A Voyage in the ‘Flora’ from Lyttelton—Cattle Stalls for Everybody—A Wonderful Time.
CHAPTER XXXIII. The Town of Nelson—“The Mongatapu Murders,” the Great Event of the Town—Burgess’ Confession—Summit of Mount Eden—Rotorua and the Hot Lakes and Geysers—Thermal Springs District—Kauri Gum—Tangariwa Mountains
CHAPTER XXXIV. The Bay of Gisborne—Taking in Passengers by the Yard Arm—The Green Ballarat Fly—False Teeth—From Napier to Hastings by the Ballarat Fly Train—Kauri Trees—A Case of Mental Telegraphy
CHAPTER XXXV. Fifty Miles in Four Hours—Comfortable Cars—Town of Wauganui—Plenty of Maoris—On the Increase—Compliments to the Maoris—The Missionary Ways all Wrong—The Tabu among the Maoris—A Mysterious Sign—Curious War-monuments—Wellington
CHAPTER XXXVI. The Poems of Mrs. Moore—The Sad Fate of William Upson—A Fellow Traveler Imitating the Prince of Wales—A Would-be Dude—Arrival at Sydney—Curious Town Names with Poem
CHAPTER XXXVII. From Sydney for Ceylon—A Lascar Crew—A Fine Ship—Three Cats and a Basket of Kittens—Dinner Conversations—Veuve Cliquot Wine—At Anchor in King George’s Sound Albany Harbor—More Cats—A Vulture on Board—Nearing the Equator again—Dressing for Dinner—Ceylon, Hotel Bristol—Servant Brampy—A Feminine Man—Japanese Jinriksha or Cart—Scenes in Ceylon—A Missionary School—Insincerity of Clothes
CHAPTER XXXVIII. Steamer Rosetta to Bombay—Limes 14 cents a Barrel—Bombay, a Bewitching City—Descriptions of People and Dress—Woman as a Road Decoration—India, the Land of Dreams and Romance—Fourteen Porters to Carry Baggage—Correcting a Servant—Killing a Slave—Arranging a Bedroom—Three Hours’ Work and a Terrible Racket—The Bird of Birds, the Indian Crow
CHAPTER XXXIX. God Vishnu, 108 Names—Change of Titles or Hunting for an Heir—Bombay as a Kaleidoscope—The Native’s Man Servant—Servants’ Recommendations—How Manuel got his Name and his English—Satan—A Visit from God
CHAPTER XL. The Government House at Malabar Point—Mansion of Kumar Shri Samatsin Hji Bahadur—The Indian Princess—A Difficult Game—Wardrobe and Jewels—Ceremonials—Decorations when Leaving—The Towers of Silence—A Funeral
CHAPTER XLI. A Jain Temple—Mr. Roychand’s Bungalow—A Decorated Six-Gun Prince—Human Fireworks—European Dress, Past and Present—Complexions—Advantages with the Zulu—Festivities at the Bungalow—Nautch Dancers—Entrance of the Prince—Address to the Prince
CHAPTER XLII. A Hindoo Betrothal, midnight, Sleepers on the ground, Home of the Bride of Twelve Years Dressed as a Boy—Illumination—Nautch Girls—Imitating Snakes—Later—Illuminated Porch Filled with Sleepers—The Plague
CHAPTER XLIII. Murder Trial in Bombay—Confidence Swindlers—Some Specialities of India—The Plague, Juggernaut, Suttee, etc.—Everything on Gigantic Scale—India First in Everything—80 States, more Custom Houses than Cats—Rich Ground for Thug Society
CHAPTER XLIV. Official Thug Book—Supplies for Traveling, Bedding, and other Freight—Scene at Railway Station—Making Way for White Man—Waiting Passengers, High and Low Caste, Touch in the cars—Our Car—Beds made up—Dreaming of Thugs—Baroda—Meet Friends—Indian Well—The Old Town—Narrow Streets—A Mad Elephant
CHAPTER XLV. Elephant Riding—Howdahs—The New Palace—The Prince’s Excursion—Gold and Silver Artillery—A Vice-royal Visit—Remarkable Dog—The Bench Show—Augustin Daly’s Back Door—Fakeer
CHAPTER XLVI. The Thugs—Government Efforts to Exterminate them—Choking a Victim—A Fakeer Spared—Thief Strangled
CHAPTER XLVII. Thugs, Continued—Record of Murders—A Joy of Hunting and Killing Men—Gordon Cumming—Killing an Elephant—Family Affection among Thugs—Burial Places
CHAPTER XLVIII. Starting for Allahabad—Lower Berths in Sleepers—Elderly Ladies have Preference of Berths—An American Lady Takes One Anyhow—How Smythe Lost his Berth—How He Got Even—The Suttee
CHAPTER XLIX. Pyjamas—Day Scene in India—Clothed in a Turban and a Pocket Handkerchief—Land Parceled Out—Established Village Servants—Witches in Families—Hereditary Midwifery—Destruction of Girl Babies—Wedding Display—Tiger-Persuader—Hailstorm Discouragers—The Tyranny of the Sweeper—Elephant Driver—Water Carrier—Curious Rivers—Arrival at Allahabad—English Quarter—Lecture Hall Like a Snowstorm—Private Carriages—A Milliner—Early Morning—The Squatting Servant—A Religious Fair
CHAPTER L. On the Road to Benares—Dust and Waiting—The Bejeweled Crowd—A Native Prince and his Guard—Zenana Lady—The Extremes of Fashion—The Hotel at Benares—An Annex a Mile Away—Doors in India—The Peepul Tree—Warning against Cold Baths—A Strange Fruit—Description of Benares—The Beginning of Creation—Pilgrims to Benares—A Priest with a Good Business Stand—Protestant Missionary—The Trinity Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu—Religion the Business at Benares
CHAPTER LI. Benares a Religious Temple—A Guide for Pilgrims to Save Time in Securing Salvation
CHAPTER LII. A Curious Way to Secure Salvation—The Banks of the Ganges—Architecture Represents Piety—A Trip on the River—Bathers and their Costumes—Drinking the Water—A Scientific Test of the Nasty Purifier—Hindoo Faith in the Ganges—A Cremation—Remembrances of the Suttee—All Life Sacred Except Human Life—The Goddess Bhowanee, and the Sacrificers—Sacred Monkeys—Ugly Idols Everywhere—Two White Minarets—A Great View with a Monkey in it—A Picture on the Water
CHAPTER LIII. Still in Benares—Another Living God—Why Things are Wonderful—Sri 108 Utterly Perfect—How He Came so—Our Visit to Sri—A Friendly Deity Exchanging Autographs and Books—Sri’s Pupil—An Interesting Man—Reverence and Irreverence—Dancing in a Sepulchre
CHAPTER LIV. Rail to Calcutta—Population—The “City of Palaces”—A Fluted Candle-stick—Ochterlony—Newspaper Correspondence—Average Knowledge of Countries—A Wrong Idea of Chicago—Calcutta and the Black Hole—Description of the Horrors—Those Who Lived—The Botanical Gardens—The Afternoon Turnout—Grand Review—Military Tournament—Excursion on the Hoogly—The Museum—What Winter Means in Calcutta
CHAPTER LV. On the Road Again—Flannels in Order—Across Country—From Greenland’s Icy Mountain—Swapping Civilization—No Field women in India—How it is in Other Countries—Canvas-covered Cars—The Tiger Country—My First Hunt—Some Wild Elephants Get Away—The Plains of India—The Ghurkas—Women for Pack-Horses—A Substitute for a Cab—Darjeeling—The Hotel—The Highest Thing in the Himalayas—The Club—Kinchinjunga and Mt. Everest—Thibetans—The Prayer Wheel—People Going to the Bazar
CHAPTER LVI. On the Road Again—The Hand-Car—A Thirty-five-mile Slide—The Banyan Tree—A Dramatic Performance—The Railroad Loop—The Half-way House—The Brain Fever Bird—The Coppersmith Bird—Nightingales and Cue Owls
CHAPTER LVII. India the Most Extraordinary Country on Earth—Nothing Forgotten—The Land of Wonders—Annual Statistics Everywhere about Violence—Tiger vs. Man—A Handsome Fight—Annual Man Killing and Tiger Killing—Other Animals—Snakes—Insurance and Snake Tables—The Cobra Bite—Muzaffurpore—Dinapore—A Train that Stopped for Gossip—Six Hours for Thirty-five Miles—A Rupee to the Engineer—Ninety Miles an Hour—Again to Benares, the Piety Hive—To Lucknow
CHAPTER LVIII. The Great Mutiny—The Massacre in Cawnpore—Terrible Scenes in Lucknow—The Residency—The Siege
CHAPTER LIX. A Visit to the Residency—Cawnpore—The Adjutant Bird and the Hindoo Corpse—The Taj Mahal—The True Conception—The Ice Storm—True Gems—Syrian Fountains—An Exaggerated Niagara
CHAPTER LX. To Lahore—The Governor’s Elephant—Taking a Ride—No Danger from Collision—Rawal Pindi—Back to Delhi—An Orientalized Englishman—Monkeys and the Paint-pot—Monkey Crying over my Note-book—Arrival at Jeypore—In Rajputana—Watching Servants—The Jeypore Hotel—Our Old and New Satan—Satan as a Liar—The Museum—A Street Show—Blocks of Houses—A Religious Procession
CHAPTER LXI. Methods in American Deaf and Dumb Asylums—Methods in the Public Schools—A Letter from a Youth in Punjab—Highly Educated Service—A Damage to the Country—A Little Book from Calcutta—Writing Poor English—Embarrassed by a Beggar Girl—A Specimen Letter—An Application for Employment—A Calcutta School Examination—Two Samples of Literature
CHAPTER LXII. Sail from Calcutta to Madras—Thence to Ceylon—Thence for Mauritius—The Indian Ocean—Our Captain’s Peculiarity—The Scot Has one too—The Flying-fish that Went Hunting in the Field—Fined for Smuggling—Lots of Pets on Board—The Color of the Sea—The Most Important Member of Nature’s Family—The Captain’s Story of Cold Weather—Omissions in the Ship’s Library—Washing Decks—Pyjamas on Deck—The Cat’s Toilet—No Interest in the Bulletin—Perfect Rest—The Milky Way and the Magellan Clouds—Mauritius—Port Louis—A Hot Country—Under French Control—A Variety of People and Complexions—Train to Curepipe—A Wonderful Office-holder—The Wooden Peg Ornament—The Prominent Historical Event of Mauritius—“Paul and Virginia”—One of Virginia’s Wedding Gifts—Heaven Copied after Mauritius—Early History of Mauritius—Quarantines—Population of all Kinds—What the World Consists of—Where Russia and Germany are—A Picture of Milan Cathedral—Newspapers—The Language—Best Sugar in the World—Literature of Mauritius
CHAPTER LXIII. Port Louis—Matches no Good—Good Roads—Death Notices—Why European Nations Rob Each Other—What Immigrants to Mauritius Do—Population—Labor Wages—The Camaron—The Palmiste and other Eatables—Monkeys—The Cyclone of 1892—Mauritius a Sunday Landscape
CHAPTER LXIV. The Steamer “Arundel Castle”—Poor Beds in Ships—The Beds in Noah’s Ark—Getting a Rest in Europe—Ship in Sight—Mozambique Channel—The Engineer and the Band—Thackeray’s “Madagascar”—Africanders Going Home—Singing on the After Deck—An Out-of-Place Story—Dynamite Explosion in Johannesburg—Entering Delagoa Bay—Ashore—A Hot Winter—Small Town—No Sights—No Carriages—Working Women—Barnum’s Purchase of Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Jumbo, and the Nelson Monument—Arrival at Durban
CHAPTER LXV. Royal Hotel Durban—Bells that Did not Ring—Early Inquiries for Comforts—Change of Temperature after Sunset—Rickhaws—The Hotel Chameleon—Natives not out after the Bell—Preponderance of Blacks in Natal—Hair Fashions in Natal—Zulus for Police—A Drive round the Berea—The Cactus and other Trees—Religion a Vital Matter—Peculiar Views about Babies—Zulu Kings—A Trappist Monastery—Transvaal Politics—Reasons why the Trouble came About
CHAPTER LXVI. Jameson over the Border—His Defeat and Capture—Sent to England for Trial—Arrest of Citizens by the Boers—Commuted Sentences—Final Release of all but Two—Interesting Days for a Stranger—Hard to Understand Either Side—What the Reformers Expected to Accomplish—How They Proposed to Do it—Testimonies a Year Later—A “Woman’s Part”—The Truth of the South African Situation—“Jameson’s Ride”—A Poem
CHAPTER LXVII. Jameson’s Raid—The Reform Committee’s Difficult Task—Possible Plans—Advice that Jameson Ought to Have—The War of 1881 and its Lessons—Statistics of Losses of the Combatants—Jameson’s Battles—Losses on Both Sides—The Military Errors—How the Warfare Should Have Been Carried on to Be Successful
CHAPTER LXVIII. Judicious Mr. Rhodes—What South Africa Consists of—Johannesburg—The Gold Mines—The Heaven of American Engineers—What the Author Knows about Mining—Description of the Boer—What Should be Expected of Him—What Was A Dizzy Jump for Rhodes—Taxes—Rhodesian Method of Reducing Native Population—Journeying in Cape Colony—The Cars—The Country—The Weather—Tamed Blacks—Familiar Figures in King William’s Town—Boer Dress—Boer Country Life—Sleeping Accommodations—The Reformers in Boer Prison—Torturing a Black Prisoner
CHAPTER LXIX. An Absorbing Novelty—The Kimberley Diamond Mines—Discovery of Diamonds—The Wronged Stranger—Where the Gems Are—A Judicious Change of Boundary—Modern Machinery and Appliances—Thrilling Excitement in Finding a Diamond—Testing a Diamond—Fences—Deep Mining by Natives in the Compound—Stealing—Reward for the Biggest Diamond—A Fortune in Wine—The Great Diamond—Office of the De Beer Co.—Sorting the Gems—Cape Town—The Most Imposing Man in British Provinces—Various Reasons for his Supremacy—How He Makes Friends
CONCLUSION. Table Rock—Table Bay—The Castle—Government and Parliament—The Club—Dutch Mansions and their Hospitality—Dr. John Barry and his Doings—On the Ship Norman—Madeira—Arrived in Southampton






SKETCHES NEW AND OLD

CONTENTS:

MY WATCH
POLITICAL ECONOMY
THE JUMPING FROG
JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE
THE STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY
THE STORY OF THE GOOD LITTLE BOY
A COUPLE OF POEMS BY TWAIN AND MOORE
NIAGARA
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
TO RAISE POULTRY
EXPERIENCE OF THE MCWILLIAMSES WITH MEMBRANOUS CROUP
MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE
HOW THE AUTHOR WAS SOLD IN NEWARK
THE OFFICE BORE
JOHNNY GREER
THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF THE GREAT BEEF CONTRACT
THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER
DISGRACEFUL PERSECUTION OF A BOY
THE JUDGES “SPIRITED WOMAN"
INFORMATION WANTED
SOME LEARNED FABLES, FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS
MY LATE SENATORIAL SECRETARYSHIP
A FASHION ITEM
RILEY-NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT
A FINE OLD MAN
SCIENCE vs. LUCK
THE LATE BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
MR. BLOKE’S ITEM
A MEDIEVAL ROMANCE
PETITION CONCERNING COPYRIGHT
AFTER-DINNER SPEECH
LIONIZING MURDERERS
A NEW CRIME
A CURIOUS DREAM
A TRUE STORY
THE SIAMESE TWINS
SPEECH AT THE SCOTTISH BANQUET IN LONDON
A GHOST STORY
THE CAPITOLINE VENUS
SPEECH ON ACCIDENT INSURANCE
JOHN CHINAMAN IN NEW YORK
HOW I EDITED AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER
THE PETRIFIED MAN
MY BLOODY MASSACRE
THE UNDERTAKER’S CHAT
CONCERNING CHAMBERMAIDS
AURELIA’S UNFORTUNATE YOUNG MAN
"AFTER” JENKINS
ABOUT BARBERS
"PARTY CRIES” IN IRELAND
THE FACTS CONCERNING THE RECENT RESIGNATION
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
HONORED AS A CURIOSITY
FIRST INTERVIEW WITH ARTEMUS WARD
CANNIBALISM IN THE CARS
THE KILLING OF JULIUS CAESAR “LOCALIZED"
THE WIDOW’S PROTEST
THE SCRIPTURAL PANORAMIST
CURING A COLD
A CURIOUS PLEASURE EXCURSION
RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR
A MYSTERIOUS VISIT






HUCKLEBERRY FINN

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. Civilizing Huck.—Miss Watson.—Tom Sawyer Waits.
CHAPTER II. The Boys Escape Jim.—Torn Sawyer’s Gang.—Deep-laid Plans.
CHAPTER III. A Good Going-over.—Grace Triumphant.—“One of Tom Sawyers’s Lies”.
CHAPTER IV. Huck and the Judge.—Superstition.
CHAPTER V. Huck’s Father.—The Fond Parent.—Reform.
CHAPTER VI. He Went for Judge Thatcher.—Huck Decided to Leave.—Political Economy.—Thrashing Around.
CHAPTER VII. Laying for Him.—Locked in the Cabin.—Sinking the Body.—Resting.
CHAPTER VIII. Sleeping in the Woods.—Raising the Dead.—Exploring the Island.—Finding Jim.—Jim’s Escape.—Signs.—Balum.
CHAPTER IX. The Cave.—The Floating House.
CHAPTER X. The Find.—Old Hank Bunker.—In Disguise.
CHAPTER XI. Huck and the Woman.—The Search.—Prevarication.—Going to Goshen.
CHAPTER XII. Slow Navigation.—Borrowing Things.—Boarding the Wreck.—The Plotters.—Hunting for the Boat.
CHAPTER XIII. Escaping from the Wreck.—The Watchman.—Sinking.
CHAPTER XIV. A General Good Time.—The Harem.—French.
CHAPTER XV. Huck Loses the Raft.—In the Fog.—Huck Finds the Raft.—Trash.
CHAPTER XVI. Expectation.—A White Lie.—Floating Currency.—Running by Cairo.—Swimming Ashore.
CHAPTER XVII. An Evening Call.—The Farm in Arkansaw.—Interior Decorations.—Stephen Dowling Bots.—Poetical Effusions.
CHAPTER XVIII. Col. Grangerford.—Aristocracy.—Feuds.—The Testament.—Recovering the Raft.—The Wood—pile.—Pork and Cabbage.
CHAPTER XIX. Tying Up Day—times.—An Astronomical Theory.—Running a Temperance Revival.—The Duke of Bridgewater.—The Troubles of Royalty.
CHAPTER XX. Huck Explains.—Laying Out a Campaign.—Working the Camp—meeting.—A Pirate at the Camp—meeting.—The Duke as a Printer.
CHAPTER XXI. Sword Exercise.—Hamlet’s Soliloquy.—They Loafed Around Town.—A Lazy Town.—Old Boggs.—Dead.
CHAPTER XXII. Sherburn.—Attending the Circus.—Intoxication in the Ring.—The Thrilling Tragedy.
CHAPTER XXIII. Sold.—Royal Comparisons.—Jim Gets Home-sick.
CHAPTER XXIV. Jim in Royal Robes.—They Take a Passenger.—Getting Information.—Family Grief.
CHAPTER XXV. Is It Them?—Singing the “Doxologer.”—Awful Square—Funeral Orgies.—A Bad Investment .
CHAPTER XXVI. A Pious King.—The King’s Clergy.—She Asked His Pardon.—Hiding in the Room.—Huck Takes the Money.
CHAPTER XXVII. The Funeral.—Satisfying Curiosity.—Suspicious of Huck,—Quick Sales and Small.
CHAPTER XXVIII. The Trip to England.—“The Brute!”—Mary Jane Decides to Leave.—Huck Parting with Mary Jane.—Mumps.—The Opposition Line.
CHAPTER XXIX. Contested Relationship.—The King Explains the Loss.—A Question of Handwriting.—Digging up the Corpse.—Huck Escapes.
CHAPTER XXX. The King Went for Him.—A Royal Row.—Powerful Mellow.
CHAPTER XXXI. Ominous Plans.—News from Jim.—Old Recollections.—A Sheep Story.—Valuable Information.
CHAPTER XXXII. Still and Sunday—like.—Mistaken Identity.—Up a Stump.—In a Dilemma.
CHAPTER XXXIII. A Nigger Stealer.—Southern Hospitality.—A Pretty Long Blessing.—Tar and Feathers.
CHAPTER XXXIV. The Hut by the Ash Hopper.—Outrageous.—Climbing the Lightning Rod.—Troubled with Witches.
CHAPTER XXXV. Escaping Properly.—Dark Schemes.—Discrimination in Stealing.—A Deep Hole.
CHAPTER XXXVI. The Lightning Rod.—His Level Best.—A Bequest to Posterity.—A High Figure.
CHAPTER XXXVII. The Last Shirt.—Mooning Around.—Sailing Orders.—The Witch Pie.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. The Coat of Arms.—A Skilled Superintendent.—Unpleasant Glory.—A Tearful Subject.
CHAPTER XXXIX. Rats.—Lively Bed—fellows.—The Straw Dummy.
CHAPTER XL. Fishing.—The Vigilance Committee.—A Lively Run.—Jim Advises a Doctor.
CHAPTER XLI. The Doctor.—Uncle Silas.—Sister Hotchkiss.—Aunt Sally in Trouble.
CHAPTER XLII. Tom Sawyer Wounded.—The Doctor’s Story.—Tom Confesses.—Aunt Polly Arrives.—Hand Out Them Letters    .
CHAPTER THE LAST. Out of Bondage.—Paying the Captive.—Yours Truly, Huck Finn.


ILLUSTRATIONS.

The Widows
Moses and the “Bulrushers"
Miss Watson
Huck Stealing Away
They Tip-toed Along
Jim
Tom Sawyer’s Band of Robbers  
Huck Creeps into his Window
Miss Watson’s Lecture
The Robbers Dispersed
Rubbing the Lamp
! ! ! !
Judge Thatcher surprised
Jim Listening
"Pap"
Huck and his Father
Reforming the Drunkard
Falling from Grace
Getting out of the Way
Solid Comfort
Thinking it Over
Raising a Howl
"Git Up"
The Shanty
Shooting the Pig
Taking a Rest
In the Woods
Watching the Boat
Discovering the Camp Fire
Jim and the Ghost
Misto Bradish’s Nigger
Exploring the Cave
In the Cave
Jim sees a Dead Man
They Found Eight Dollars
Jim and the Snake
Old Hank Bunker
"A Fair Fit"
"Come In"
"Him and another Man"
She puts up a Snack
"Hump Yourself"
On the Raft
He sometimes Lifted a Chicken
"Please don’t, Bill"
"It ain’t Good Morals"
"Oh! Lordy, Lordy!”
In a Fix
"Hello, What’s Up?"
The Wreck
We turned in and Slept
Turning over the Truck
Solomon and his Million Wives
The story of “Sollermun"
"We Would Sell the Raft"
Among the Snags
Asleep on the Raft
"Something being Raftsman"
"Boy, that’s a Lie"
"Here I is, Huck"
Climbing up the Bank
"Who’s There?"
"Buck"
"It made Her look Spidery"
"They got him out and emptied Him"  
The House
Col. Grangerford
Young Harney Shepherdson
Miss Charlotte
"And asked me if I Liked Her"
"Behind the Wood-pile"
Hiding Day-times
"And Dogs a-Coming"
"By rights I am a Duke!”
"I am the Late Dauphin"
Tail Piece
On the Raft
The King as Juliet
"Courting on the Sly"
"A Pirate for Thirty Years"
Another little Job
Practizing
Hamlet’s Soliloquy
"Gimme a Chaw"
A Little Monthly Drunk
The Death of Boggs
Sherburn steps out
A Dead Head
He shed Seventeen Suits
Tragedy
Their Pockets Bulged
Henry the Eighth in Boston Harbor
Harmless
Adolphus
He fairly emptied that Young Fellow
"Alas, our Poor Brother"
"You Bet it is"
Leaking
Making up the “Deffisit"
Going for him
The Doctor
The Bag of Money
The Cubby
Supper with the Hare-Lip
Honest Injun
The Duke looks under the Bed
Huck takes the Money
A Crack in the Dining-room Door
The Undertaker
"He had a Rat!”
"Was you in my Room?"
Jawing
In Trouble
Indignation
How to Find Them
He Wrote
Hannah with the Mumps
The Auction
The True Brothers
The Doctor leads Huck
The Duke Wrote
"Gentlemen, Gentlemen!”
"Jim Lit Out"
The King shakes Huck
The Duke went for Him
Spanish Moss
"Who Nailed Him?"
Thinking
He gave him Ten Cents
Striking for the Back Country
Still and Sunday-like
She hugged him tight
"Who do you reckon it is?"
"It was Tom Sawyer"
"Mr. Archibald Nichols, I presume?"
A pretty long Blessing
Traveling By Rail
Vittles
A Simple Job
Witches
Getting Wood
One of the Best Authorities
The Breakfast-Horn
Smouching the Knives
Going down the Lightning-Rod
Stealing spoons
Tom advises a Witch Pie
The Rubbage-Pile
"Missus, dey’s a Sheet Gone"
In a Tearing Way
One of his Ancestors
Jim’s Coat of Arms
A Tough Job
Buttons on their Tails
Irrigation
Keeping off Dull Times
Sawdust Diet
Trouble is Brewing
Fishing
Every one had a Gun
Tom caught on a Splinter
Jim advises a Doctor
The Doctor
Uncle Silas in Danger
Old Mrs. Hotchkiss
Aunt Sally talks to Huck
Tom Sawyer wounded
The Doctor speaks for Jim
Tom rose square up in Bed
"Hand out them Letters"
Out of Bondage
Tom’s Liberality
Yours Truly






THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Y-o-u-u Tom-Aunt Polly Decides Upon her Duty —Tom Practices Music—The Challenge—A Private Entrance
CHAPTER II. Strong Temptations—Strategic Movements —The Innocents Beguiled
CHAPTER III. Tom as a General—Triumph and Reward —Dismal Felicity—Commission and Omission
CHAPTER IV. Mental Acrobatics—Attending Sunday—School —The Superintendent—“Showing off”—Tom Lionized
CHAPTER V. A Useful Minister—In Church—The Climax
CHAPTER VI. Self-Examination—Dentistry—The Midnight Charm —Witches and Devils—Cautious Approaches—Happy Hours
CHAPTER VII. A Treaty Entered Into—Early Lessons—A Mistake Made
CHAPTER VIII. Tom Decides on his Course—Old Scenes Re-enacted
CHAPTER IX. A Solemn Situation—Grave Subjects Introduced —Injun Joe Explains
CHAPTER X. The Solemn Oath—Terror Brings Repentance —Mental Punishment
CHAPTER XI. Muff Potter Comes Himself—Tom’s Conscience at Work
CHAPTER XII. Tom Shows his Generosity—Aunt Polly Weakens
CHAPTER XIII. The Young Pirates—Going to the Rendezvous —The Camp—Fire Talk
CHAPTER XIV. Camp-Life—A Sensation—Tom Steals Away from Camp
CHAPTER XV. Tom Reconnoiters—Learns the Situation—Reports at Camp
CHAPTER XVI. A Day’s Amusements—Tom Reveals a Secret—The Pirates take a Lesson —A Night Surprise—An Indian War
CHAPTER XVII. Memories of the Lost Heroes—The Point in Tom’s Secret
CHAPTER XVIII. Tom’s Feelings Investigated—Wonderful Dream —Becky Thatcher Overshadowed —Tom Becomes Jealous—Black Revenge
CHAPTER XIX. Tom Tells the Truth
CHAPTER XX. Becky in a Dilemma —Tom’s Nobility Asserts Itself
CHAPTER XXI. Youthful Eloquence—Compositions by the Young Ladies—A Lengthy Vision —The Boy’s Vengeance Satisfied
CHAPTER XXII. Tom’s Confidence Betrayed —Expects Signal Punishment
CHAPTER XXIII. Old Muff’s Friends—Muff Potter in Court —Muff Potter Saved
CHAPTER XXIV. Tom as the Village Hero—Days of Splendor and Nights of Horror—Pursuit of Injun Joe
CHAPTER XXV. About Kings and Diamonds—Search for the Treasure —Dead People and Ghosts
CHAPTER XXVI. The Haunted House—Sleepy Ghosts —A Box of Gold—Bitter Luck
CHAPTER XXVII. Doubts to be Settled—The Young Detectives
CHAPTER XXVIII. An Attempt at No. Two—Huck Mounts Guard
CHAPTER XXIX. The Pic-nic—Huck on Injun Joe’s Track —The “Revenge” Job—Aid for the Widow
CHAPTER XXX. The Welchman Reports—Huck Under Fire—The Story Circulated —A New Sensation—Hope Giving Way to Despair
CHAPTER XXXI. An Exploring Expedition—Trouble Commences —Lost in the Cave—Total Darkness—Found but not Saved
CHAPTER XXXII. Tom tells the Story of their Escape —Tom’s Enemy in Safe Quarters
CHAPTER XXXIII. The Fate of Injun Joe—Huck and Tom Compare Notes —An Expedition to the Cave—Protection Against Ghosts —“An Awful Snug Place”—A Reception at the Widow Douglas’s
CHAPTER XXXIV. Springing a Secret—Mr. Jones’ Surprise a Failure
CHAPTER XXXV. A New Order of Things—Poor Huck—New Adventures Planned

ILLUSTRATIONS

Tom Sawyer
Tom at Home
Aunt Polly Beguiled
A Good Opportunity
Who’s Afraid
Late Home
Jim
'Tendin’ to Business
Ain’t that Work?
Cat and Toys
Amusement
Becky Thatcher
Paying Off
After the Battle
"Showing Off"
Not Amiss
Mary
Tom Contemplating
Dampened Ardor
Youth
Boyhood
Using the “Barlow"
The Church
Necessities
Tom as a Sunday-School Hero    
The Prize
At Church
The Model Boy
The Church Choir
A Side Show
Result of Playing in Church
The Pinch-Bug
Sid
Dentistry
Huckleberry Finn
Mother Hopkins
Result of Tom’s Truthfulness
Tom as an Artist
Interrupted Courtship
The Master
Vain Pleading
Tail Piece
The Grave in the Woods
Tom Meditates
Robin Hood and his Foe
Death of Robin Hood
Midnight
Tom’s Mode of Egress
Tom’s Effort at Prayer
Muff Potter Outwitted
The Graveyard
Forewarnings
Disturbing Muff’s Sleep
Tom’s Talk with his Aunt
Muff Potter
A Suspicious Incident
Injun Joe’s two Victims
In the Coils
Peter
Aunt Polly seeks Information
A General Good Time
Demoralized
Joe Harper
On Board Their First Prize
The Pirates Ashore
Wild Life
The Pirate’s Bath
The Pleasant Stroll
The Search for the Drowned
The Mysterious Writing
River View
What Tom Saw
Tom Swims the River
Taking Lessons
The Pirates’ Egg Market
Tom Looking for Joe’s Knife    
The Thunder Storm
Terrible Slaughter
The Mourner
Tom’s Proudest Moment
Amy Lawrence
Tom tries to Remember
The Hero
A Flirtation
Becky Retaliates
A Sudden Frost
Counter-irritation
Aunt Polly
Tom justified
The Discovery
Caught in the Act
Tom Astonishes the School
Literature
Tom Declaims
Examination Evening
On Exhibition
Prize Authors
The Master’s Dilemma
The School House
The Cadet
Happy for Two Days
Enjoying the Vacation
The Stolen Melons
The Judge
Visiting the Prisoner
Tom Swears
The Court Room
The Detective
Tom Dreams
The Treasure
The Private Conference
A King; Poor Fellow!
Business
The Ha’nted House
Injun Joe
The Greatest and Best
Hidden Treasures Unearthed
The Boy’s Salvation
Room No. 2
The Next Day’s Conference
Treasures
Uncle Jake
Buck at Home
The Haunted Room
"Run for Your Life"
McDougal’s Cave
Inside the Cave
Huck on Duty
A Rousing Act
Tail Piece
The Welchman
Result of a Sneeze
Cornered
Alarming Discoveries
Tom and Becky stir up the Town
Tom’s Marks
Huck Questions the Widow
Vampires
Wonders of the Cave
Attacked by Natives
Despair
The Wedding Cake
A New Terror
Daylight
"Turn Out” to Receive Tom and Becky
The Escape from the Cave
Fate of the Ragged Man
The Treasures Found
Caught at Last
Drop after Drop
Having a Good Time
A Business Trip
"Got it at Last!”
Tail Piece
Widow Douglas
Tom Backs his Statement
Tail Piece
Huck Transformed
Comfortable Once More
High up in Society
Contentment






ROUGHING IT

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. My Brother appointed Secretary of Nevada—I Envy His Prospective Adventures—Am Appointed Private Secretary Under Him—My Contentment Complete—Packed in One Hour—Dreams and Visions—On the Missouri River—A Bully Boat
CHAPTER II. Arrive at St. Joseph—Only Twenty-five Pounds Baggage Allowed—Farewell to Kid Gloves and Dress Coats—Armed to the Teeth—The “Allen”—A Cheerful Weapon—Persuaded to Buy a Mule—Schedule of Luxuries—We Leave the “States”—“Our Coach”—Mails for the Indians—Between a Wink and an Earthquake—A Modern Sphynx and How She Entertained Us—A Sociable Heifer
CHAPTER III. “The Thoroughbrace is Broke”—Mails Delivered Properly—Sleeping Under Difficulties—A Jackass Rabbit Meditating, and on Business—A Modern Gulliver—Sage-brush—Overcoats as an Article of Diet—Sad Fate of a Camel—Warning to Experimenters
CHAPTER IV. Making Our Bed—Assaults by the Unabridged—At a Station—Our Driver a Great and Shining Dignitary—Strange Place for a Frontyard—Accommodations—Double Portraits—An Heirloom—Our Worthy Landlord—“Fixings and Things”—An Exile—Slumgullion—A Well Furnished Table—The Landlord Astonished—Table Etiquette—Wild Mexican Mules—Stage-coaching and Railroading
CHAPTER V. New Acquaintances—The Cayote—A Dog’s Experiences—A Disgusted Dog—The Relatives of the Cayote—Meals Taken Away from Home
CHAPTER VI. The Division Superintendent—The Conductor—The Driver—One Hundred and Fifty Miles’ Drive Without Sleep—Teaching a Subordinate—Our Old Friend Jack and a Pilgrim—Ben Holliday Compared to Moses
CHAPTER VII. Overland City—Crossing the Platte—Bemis’s Buffalo Hunt—Assault by a Buffalo—Bemis’s Horse Goes Crazy—An Impromptu Circus—A New Departure—Bemis Finds Refuge in a Tree—Escapes Finally by a Wonderful Method
CHAPTER VIII. The Pony Express—Fifty Miles Without Stopping—“Here he Comes”—Alkali Water—Riding an Avalanche—Indian Massacre
CHAPTER IX. Among the Indians—An Unfair Advantage—Laying on our Arms—A Midnight Murder—Wrath of Outlaws—A Dangerous, yet Valuable Citizen
CHAPTER X. History of Slade—A Proposed Fist-fight—Encounter with Jules—Paradise of Outlaws—Slade as Superintendent—As Executioner—A Doomed Whisky Seller—A Prisoner—A Wife’s Bravery—An Ancient Enemy Captured—Enjoying a Luxury—Hob-nobbing with Slade—Too Polite—A Happy Escape
CHAPTER XI . Slade in Montana—“On a Spree”—In Court—Attack on a Judge—Arrest by the Vigilantes—Turn out of the Miners—Execution of Slade—Lamentations of His Wife—Was Slade a Coward?
CHAPTER XII. A Mormon Emigrant Train—The Heart of the Rocky Mountains—Pure Saleratus—A Natural Ice-House—An Entire Inhabitant—In Sight of “Eternal Snow”—The South Pass—The Parting Streams—An Unreliable Letter Carrier—Meeting of Old Friends—A Spoiled Watermelon—Down the Mountain- -A Scene of Desolation—Lost in the Dark—Unnecessary Advice—U.S. Troops and Indians—Sublime Spectacle—Another Delusion Dispelled—Among the Angels
CHAPTER XIII. Mormons and Gentiles—Exhilarating Drink, and its Effect on Bemis—Salt Lake City—A Great Contrast—A Mormon Vagrant—Talk with a Saint—A Visit to the “King”—A Happy Simile
CHAPTER XIV. Mormon Contractors—How Mr. Street Astonished Them—The Case Before Brigham Young, and How he Disposed of it—Polygamy Viewed from a New Position
CHAPTER XV. A Gentile Den—Polygamy Discussed—Favorite Wife and D. 4—Hennery for Retired Wives—Children Need Marking—Cost of a Gift to No. 6—A Penny- whistle Gift and its Effects—Fathering the Foundlings—It Resembled Him—The Family Bedstead
CHAPTER XVI. The Mormon Bible—Proofs of its Divinity—Plagiarism of its Authors—Story of Nephi—Wonderful Battle—Kilkenny Cats Outdone
CHAPTER XVII. Three Sides to all Questions—Everything “A Quarter”—Shriveled Up—Emigrants and White Shirts at a Discount—“Forty-Niners”—Above Par—Real Happiness
CHAPTER XVIII. Alkali Desert—Romance of Crossing Dispelled—Alkali Dust—Effect on the Mules—Universal Thanksgiving
CHAPTER XIX. The Digger Indians Compared with the Bushmen of Africa—Food, Life and Characteristics—Cowardly Attack on a Stage Coach—A Brave Driver—The Noble Red Man
CHAPTER XX. The Great American Desert—Forty Miles on Bones—Lakes Without Outlets—Greely’s Remarkable Ride—Hank Monk, the Renowned Driver—Fatal Effects of “Corking” a Story—Bald-Headed Anecdote
CHAPTER XXI. Alkali Dust—Desolation and Contemplation—Carson City—Our Journey Ended—We are Introduced to Several Citizens—A Strange Rebuke—A Washoe Zephyr at Play—Its Office Hours—Governor’s Palace—Government Offices—Our French Landlady Bridget O’Flannigan—Shadow Secrets—Cause for a Disturbance at Once—The Irish Brigade—Mrs. O’Flannigan’s Boarders—The Surveying Expedition—Escape of the Tarantulas
CHAPTER XXII. The Son of a Nabob—Start for Lake Tahoe—Splendor of the Views—Trip on the Lake—Camping Out—Reinvigorating Climate—Clearing a Tract of Land—Securing a Title—Outhouse and Fences
CHAPTER XXIII. A Happy Life—Lake Tahoe and its Moods—Transparency of the Waters—A Catastrophe—Fire! Fire!—A Magnificent Spectacle—Homeless Again—We take to the Lake—A Storm—Return to Carson
CHAPTER XXIV. Resolve to Buy a Horse—Horsemanship in Carson—A Temptation—Advice Given Me Freely—I Buy the Mexican Plug—My First Ride—A Good Bucker—I Loan the Plug—Experience of Borrowers—Attempts to Sell—Expense of the Experiment—A Stranger Taken In
CHAPTER XXV. The Mormons in Nevada—How to Persuade a Loan from Them—Early History of the Territory—Silver Mines Discovered—The New Territorial Government—A Foreign One and a Poor One—Its Funny Struggles for Existence—No Credit, no Cash—Old Abe Currey Sustains it and its Officers—Instructions and Vouchers—An Indian’s Endorsement—Toll-Gates
CHAPTER XXVI. The Silver Fever—State of the Market—Silver Bricks—Tales Told—Off for the Humboldt Mines
CHAPTER XXVII. Our manner of going—Incidents of the Trip—A Warm but Too Familiar a Bedfellow—Mr. Ballou Objects—Sunshine amid Clouds—Safely Arrived
CHAPTER XXVIII. Arrive at the Mountains—Building Our Cabin—My First Prospecting Tour—My First Gold Mine—Pockets Filled With Treasures—Filtering the News to My Companions—The Bubble Pricked—All Not Gold That Glitters
CHAPTER XXIX. Out Prospecting—A Silver Mine At Last—Making a Fortune With Sledge and Drill—A Hard Road to Travel—We Own in Claims—A Rocky Country
CHAPTER XXX. Disinterested Friends—How “Feet” Were Sold—We Quit Tunnelling—A Trip to Esmeralda—My Companions—An Indian Prophesy—A Flood—Our Quarters During It
CHAPTER XXXI. The Guests at “Honey Lake Smith’s”—“Bully Old Arkansas”—“Our Landlord"- -Determined to Fight—The Landlord’s Wife—The Bully Conquered by Her—Another Start—Crossing the Carson—A Narrow Escape—Following Our Own Track—A New Guide—Lost in the Snow
CHAPTER XXXII. Desperate Situation—Attempts to Make a Fire—Our Horses leave us—We Find Matches—One, Two, Three and the Last—No Fire—Death Seems Inevitable—We Mourn Over Our Evil Lives—Discarded Vices—We Forgive Each Other—An Affectionate Farewell—The Sleep of Oblivion
CHAPTER XXXIII. Return of Consciousness—Ridiculous Developments—A Station House—Bitter Feelings—Fruits of Repentance—Resurrected Vices
CHAPTER XXXIV. About Carson—General Buncombe—Hyde vs. Morgan—How Hyde Lost His Ranch- -The Great Landslide Case—The Trial—General Buncombe in Court—A Wonderful Decision—A Serious Afterthought
CHAPTER XXXV. A New Travelling Companion—All Full and No Accommodations—How Captain Nye found Room—and Caused Our Leaving to be Lamented—The Uses of Tunnelling—A Notable Example—We Go into the “Claim” Business and Fail—At the Bottom
CHAPTER XXXVI. A Quartz Mill—Amalgamation—“Screening Tailings”—First Quartz Mill in Nevada—Fire Assay—A Smart Assayer—I stake for an advance
CHAPTER XXXVII. The Whiteman Cement Mine—Story of its Discovery—A Secret Expedition—A Nocturnal Adventure—A Distressing Position—A Failure and a Week’s Holiday
CHAPTER XXXVIII. Mono Lake—Shampooing Made Easy—Thoughtless Act of Our Dog and the Results—Lye Water—Curiosities of the Lake—Free Hotel—Some Funny Incidents a Little Overdrawn
CHAPTER XXXIX. Visit to the Islands in Lake Mono—Ashes and Desolation—Life Amid Death Our Boat Adrift—A Jump For Life—A Storm On the Lake—A Mass of Soap Suds—Geological Curiosities—A Week On the Sierras—A Narrow Escape From a Funny Explosion—“Stove Heap Gone"
CHAPTER XL. The “Wide West” Mine—It is “Interviewed” by Higbie—A Blind Lead—Worth a Million—We are Rich At Last—Plans for the Future
CHAPTER XLI. A Rheumatic Patient—Day Dreams—An Unfortunate Stumble—I Leave Suddenly—Another Patient—Higbie in the Cabin—Our Balloon Bursted—Worth Nothing—Regrets and Explanations—Our Third Partner
CHAPTER XLII. What to do Next?—Obstacles I Had Met With—“Jack of All Trades”—Mining Again—Target Shooting—I Turn City Editor—I Succeed Finely
CHAPTER XLIII. My Friend Boggs—The School Report—Boggs Pays Me An Old Debt—Virginia City
CHAPTER XLIV. Flush Times—Plenty of Stock—Editorial Puffing—Stocks Given Me—Salting Mines—A Tragedian In a New Role
CHAPTER XLV. Flush Times Continue—Sanitary Commission Fund—Wild Enthusiasm of the People—Would not wait to Contribute—The Sanitary Flour Sack—It is Carried to Gold Hill and Dayton—Final Reception in Virginia—Results of the Sale—A Grand Total
CHAPTER XLVI. The Nabobs of Those Days—John Smith as a Traveler—Sudden Wealth—A Sixty-Thousand-Dollar Horse—A Smart Telegraph Operator—A Nabob in New York City—Charters an Omnibus—“Walk in, It’s All Free”—“You Can’t Pay a Cent”—“Hold On, Driver, I Weaken”—Sociability of New Yorkers
CHAPTER XLVII. Buck Fanshaw’s Death—The Cause Thereof—Preparations for His Burial—Scotty Briggs the Committee Man—He Visits the Minister—Scotty Can’t Play His Hand—The Minister Gets Mixed—Both Begin to See—“All Down Again But Nine”—Buck Fanshaw as a Citizen—How To “Shook Your Mother”—The Funeral—Scotty Briggs as a Sunday School Teacher
CHAPTER XLVIII. The First Twenty-Six Graves in Nevada—The Prominent Men of the County—The Man Who Had Killed His Dozen—Trial by Jury—Specimen Jurors—A Private Grave Yard—The Desperadoes—Who They Killed—Waking up the Weary Passenger—Satisfaction Without Fighting
CHAPTER XLIX. Fatal Shooting Affray—Robbery and Desperate Affray—A Specimen City Official—A Marked Man—A Street Fight—Punishment of Crime
CHAPTER L. Captain Ned Blakely—Bill Nookes Receives Desired Information—Killing of Blakely’s Mate—A Walking Battery—Blakely Secures Nookes—Hang First and Be Tried Afterwards—Captain Blakely as a Chaplain—The First Chapter of Genesis Read at a Hanging—Nookes Hung—Blakely’s Regrets
CHAPTER LI. The Weekly Occidental—A Ready Editor—A Novel—A Concentration of Talent—The Heroes and the Heroines—The Dissolute Author Engaged—Extraordinary Havoc With the Novel—A Highly Romantic Chapter—The Lovers Separated—Jonah Out-done—A Lost Poem—The Aged Pilot Man—Storm On the Erie Canal—Dollinger the Pilot Man—Terrific Gale—Danger Increases—A Crisis Arrived—Saved as if by a Miracle
CHAPTER LII. Freights to California—Silver Bricks—Under Ground Mines—Timber Supports—A Visit to the Mines—The Caved Mines—Total of Shipments in 1863
CHAPTER LIII. Jim Blaine and his Grandfather’s Ram—Filkin’s Mistake—Old Miss Wagner and her Glass Eye—Jacobs, the Coffin Dealer—Waiting for a Customer—His Bargain With Old Robbins—Robbins Sues for Damage and Collects—A New Use for Missionaries—The Effect—His Uncle Lem and the Use Providence Made of Him—Sad Fate of Wheeler—Devotion of His Wife—A Model Monument—What About the Ram?
CHAPTER LIV. Chinese in Virginia City—Washing Bills—Habit of Imitation—Chinese Immigration—A Visit to Chinatown—Messrs. Ah Sing, Hong Wo, See Yup, &c
CHAPTER LV. Tired of Virginia City—An Old Schoolmate—A Two Years’ Loan—Acting as an Editor—Almost Receive an Offer—An Accident—Three Drunken Anecdotes—Last Look at Mt. Davidson—A Beautiful Incident
CHAPTER LVI. Off for San Francisco—Western and Eastern Landscapes—The Hottest place on Earth—Summer and Winter
CHAPTER LVII. California—Novelty of Seeing a Woman—“Well if it ain’t a Child!”—One Hundred and Fifty Dollars for a Kiss—Waiting for a turn
CHAPTER LVIII. Life in San Francisco—Worthless Stocks—My First Earthquake—Reportorial Instincts—Effects of the Shocks—Incidents and Curiosities—Sabbath Breakers—The Lodger and the Chambermaid—A Sensible Fashion to Follow—Effects of the Earthquake on the Ministers
CHAPTER LIX. Poor Again—Slinking as a Business—A Model Collector—Misery loves Company—Comparing Notes for Comfort—A Streak of Luck—Finding a Dime—Wealthy by Comparison—Two Sumptuous Dinners
CHAPTER LX. An Old Friend—An Educated Miner—Pocket Mining—Freaks of Fortune
CHAPTER LXI. Dick Baker and his Cat—Tom Quartz’s Peculiarities—On an Excursion—Appearance On His Return—A Prejudiced Cat—Empty Pockets and a Roving Life
CHAPTER LXII. Bound for the Sandwich Islands—The Three Captains—The Old Admiral—His Daily Habits—His Well Fought Fields—An Unexpected Opponent—The Admiral Overpowered—The Victor Declared a Hero
CHAPTER LXIII. Arrival at the Islands—Honolulu—What I Saw There—Dress and Habits of the Inhabitants—The Animal Kingdom—Fruits and Delightful Effects
CHAPTER LXIV. An Excursion—Captain Phillips and his Turn-Out—A Horseback Ride—A Vicious Animal—Nature and Art—Interesting Ruins—All Praise to the Missionaries
CHAPTER LXV. Interesting Mementoes and Relics—An Old Legend of a Frightful Leap—An Appreciative Horse—Horse Jockeys and Their Brothers—A New Trick—A Hay Merchant—Good Country for Horse Lovers
CHAPTER LXVI. A Saturday Afternoon—Sandwich Island Girls on a Frolic—The Poi Merchant—Grand Gala Day—A Native Dance—Church Membership—Cats and Officials—An Overwhelming Discovery
CHAPTER LXVII. The Legislature of the Island—What Its President Has Seen—Praying for an Enemy—Women’s Rights—Romantic Fashions—Worship of the Shark—Desire for Dress—Full Dress—Not Paris Style—Playing Empire—Officials and Foreign Ambassadors—Overwhelming Magnificence
CHAPTER LXVIII. A Royal Funeral—Order of Procession—Pomp and Ceremony—A Striking Contrast—A Sick Monarch—Human Sacrifices at His Death—Burial Orgies
CHAPTER LXIX. “Once more upon the Waters.”—A Noisy Passenger—Several Silent Ones—A Moonlight Scene—Fruits and Plantations
CHAPTER LXX. A Droll Character—Mrs. Beazely and Her Son—Meditations on Turnips—A Letter from Horace Greeley—An Indignant Rejoinder—The Letter Translated but too Late
CHAPTER LXXI. Kealakekua Bay—Death of Captain Cook—His Monument—Its Construction—On Board the Schooner
CHAPTER LXXII. Young Kanakas in New England—A Temple Built by Ghosts—Female Bathers—I Stood Guard—Women and Whiskey—A Fight for Religion—Arrival of Missionaries
CHAPTER LXXIII. Native Canoes—Surf Bathing—A Sanctuary—How Built—The Queen’s Rock—Curiosities—Petrified Lava
CHAPTER LXXIV. Visit to the Volcano—The Crater—Pillar of Fire—Magnificent Spectacle—A Lake of Fire
CHAPTER LXXV. The North Lake—Fountains of Fire—Streams of Burning Lava—Tidal Waves
CHAPTER LXXVI. A Reminiscence—Another Horse Story—My Ride with the Retired Milk Horse- -A Picnicing Excursion—Dead Volcano of Holeakala—Comparison with Vesuvius—An Inside View
CHAPTER LXXVII. A Curious Character—A Series of Stories—Sad Fate of a Liar—Evidence of Insanity
CHAPTER LXXVIII. Return to San Francisco—Ship Amusements—Preparing for Lecturing—Valuable Assistance Secured—My First Attempt—The Audience Carried—“All’s Well that Ends Well."
CHAPTER LXXIX. Highwaymen—A Predicament—A Huge Joke—Farewell to California—At Home Again—Great Changes. Moral.
APPENDIX. A. —Brief Sketch of Mormon History B.—The Mountain Meadows Massacre C.—Concerning a Frightful Assassination that was never Consummated

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

1. THE MINERS’ DREAM
2. ENVIOUS CONTEMPLATIONS
3. INNOCENT DREAMS
4. LIGHT TRAVELING ORDER
5. THE “ALLEN"
6. INDUCEMENTS TO PURCHASE
7. THE FACETIOUS DRIVER
8. PLEASING NEWS
9. THE SPHYNX
10. MEDITATION
11. ON BUSINESS
12. AUTHOR AS GULLIVER
13. A TOUCH STATEMENT
14. THIRD TRIP OF THE UNABRIDGED
15. A POWERFUL GLASS
16. AN HEIRLOOM
17. OUR LANDLORD
18. DIGNIFIED EXILE
19. DRINKING SLUMGULLION
20. A JOKE WITHOUT CREAM
21. PULLMAN CAR DINING-SALOON
22. OUR MORNING RIDE
23. PRAIRIE DOGS
24. A CAYOTE
25. SHOWING RESPECT TO RELATIVES
26. THE CONDUCTOR
27. TEACHING A SUBORDINATE
28. JACK AND THE ELDERLY PILGRIM
29. CROSSING THE PLATTE
30. I BEGAN TO PRAY
31. A NEW DEPARTURE
32. SUSPENDED OPERATIONS
33. A WONDERFUL LIE
34. TALL PIECE
35. HERE HE COMES
36. CHANGING HORSES
37. RIDING THE AVALANCHE
38. INDIAN COUNTRY
39. A PROPOSED FIST FIGHT
40. FROM BEHIND THE DOOR
41. SLADE AS AN EXECUTIONER
42. AN UNPLEASANT VIEW
43. UNAPPRECIATED POLITENESS
44. SLADE IN COURT
45. A WIFE’S LAMENTATIONS
46. THE CONCENTRATED INHABITANT
47. THE SOUTH PASS
48. THE PARTED STREAMS
49. IT SPOILED THE MELON
50. THE CAYOTE AND THE RAVEN
51. "DON’T COME HERE ...
52. "THINK I’M A FOOL ...
53. THE “DESTROYING ANGEL...
54. EFFECTS OF “VALLEY TAN"
55. ONE CREST
56. THE OTHER
57. THE VAGRANT
58. PORTRAIT OF EBER KIMBALL
59. PORTRAIT OR BRIGHAM YOUNG
60. THE CONTRACTORS BEFORE THE KING
61. I WAS TOUCHED
62. THE ENDOWMENT
63. FAVORITE WIFE AND D.4
64. NEEDED MARKING
65. A REMARKABLE RESEMBLANCE
66. THE FAMILY BEDSTEAD
67. THE MIRACULOUS COMPASS
68. THREE SIDES TO A QUESTION
69. RESULT OF HFGH FREIGHTS
70. A SHRIVELED QUARTER
71. AN OBJECT OF PITY
72. TAIL-PIECE
73. TAIL-PIECE
74. GOSHOTT INDIANS HANGING AROUND
75. THE DRIVE FOR LIFE
76. GREELEY’S RIDE
77. BOTTLING AN ANECDOTE
78. TAIL-PIECE
79. CONTEMPLATION
80. THE WASHOE ZEPHYR
81. THE GOVERNOR’S HOUSE
82. DARK DISCLOSURES
83. THE IRISH BRIGADE
84. RECREATION
85. THE TARANTULA
86. LIGHT THROWN ON THE SUBJECT
87. I STEERED
88. THE INVALID
89. THE RESTORED
90. OUR HOUSE
91. AT BUSINESS
92. FIGHT AT LAKE TAHOE
93. "THINK HIM AN AMERICAN HORSE"
94. UNEXPECTED ELEVATION
95. UNIVERSALLY UNSETTLED
96. RIDING THE PLUG
97. WANTED EXERCISE
98. BORROWING MADE EASY
99. FREE RIDES
100. SATISFACTORY VOUCHERS
101. NEEDS PRAYING FOR
102. MAP OF TOLL ROADS
103. UNLOADING SILVER BRICKS
104. VIEW IN HUMBOLDT MOUNTAINS
105. GOING TO HUMBOLDT
106. BALLOU’S BEDFELLOW
107. PLEASURES OF CAMPING OUT
108. THE SECRET SEARCH
109. "CAST YOUR EYE ON THAT ...
110. "WE’VE GOT IT"
111. INCIPIENT MILLIONAIRES
112. ROCKS-TAIL-PIECE
113. "DO YOU SEE IT?"
114. FAREWELL SWEET RIVER
115. THE RESCUE
116. "MR. ARKANSAS ...
117. AN ARMED ALLY
118. CROSSING THE FLOOD
119. ADVANCE IN A CIRCLE
120, THE SONGSTER
121. THE FOXES HAVE HOLES-TAIL-PIECE
122. A FLAT FAILURE
123. THE LAST MATCH
124. DISCARDED VICES
125. FLAMES-TAIL-PIECE
127. IT WAS THUS WE MET
128. TAKING POSSESSION
129. A GREAT EFFORT
130. REARRANGING AND SHIFTING
131. WE LEFT LAMENTED
132. PICTURE OF TOWNSEND’S TUNNEL
133. QUARTZ MILL
134. ANOTHER PROCESS OF AMALGAMATION 
135. FIRST QUARTZ MILL IN NEVADA
136. A SLICE OF RICH ORE
137. THE SAVED BROTHER
138. ON A SECRET EXPEDITION
139. LAKE MONO
140. RATHER SOAPY
141. A BARK UNDER FULL SAIL
142. A MODEL BOARDING HOUSE
143. LIFE AMID DEATH
144. A JUMP FOR LIFE
145. "STOVE HEAP GONE"
146. INTERVIEWING THE “WIDE WEST"
147. WORTH A MILLION
148. MILLIONAIRES LAYING PLANS
149. DANGEROUSLY SICK
150. WORTH NOTHING
151. THE COMPROMISE
152. ONE OF MY FAILURES
153. TARGET SHOOTING
154. AS CITY EDITOR
155. THE ENTIRE MARKET
156. A FRIEND INDEED
157. UNION-TAIL-PIECE
158. AN EDUCATIONAL REPORT
159. NO PARTICULAR HURRY
160. VIEW OF VIRGINIA CITY AND MT. DAVIDSON
161. A NEW MINE
162. TRY A FEW
163. PORTRAIT OF MR. STEWART
164. SELLING A MINE
165. COULDN’T WAIT
166. THE GREAT “FLOUR SACS” PROCESSION
167. TAIL-PIECE
168. A NABOB
169. MAGNIFICENCE AND MISERY
170. A FRIENDLY DRIVER
171. ASTONISHES THE NATIVES
172. COL. JACK WEAKENS
173. SCOTTY BRIGGS AND THE MINISTER
174. REGULATING MATTERS
175. DIDN’T SHOOK HIS MOTHER
176. SCOTTY AS S. S. TEACHER
177. THE MAN WHO HAD KILLED HIS DOZEN
178. THE UNPREJUDICED JURY
179. A DESPERADO GIVING REFERENCE
180. SATISFYING A FOE
181. TAIL-PIECE
182. GIVING INFORMATION
183. A WALKING BATTERY
184. OVERHAULING HIS MANIFEST
185. SHIP-TAIL-PIECE
186. THE HEROES AND HEROINES OF THE STORY
187. DISSOLUTE AUTHOR
188. THERE SAT THE LAWYER
189. JONAH OUTDONE
190. DOLLINGER
191. LOW BRIDGE
192. SHORTENING SAIL
193. LIGHTENING SHIP
194. THE MARVELLOUS RESCUE
195. SILVER BRICKS
196. TIMBER SUPPORTS
197. FROM GALLERY TO GALLERY
198. JIM BLAINE
199. HURRAH FOR NIXON
200. MISS WAGNER
201. WAITING FOR A CUSTOMER
202. WAS TO BE THERE
209. THE MONUMENT
205. WHERE IS THE RAM-TAIL-PIECE
205. CHINESE WASH BILL
206. IMITATION
207. CHINESE LOTTERY
208. CHINESE MERCHANT AT HOME
209. AN OLD FRIEND
210. FAREWELL AND ACCIDENT
211. "GIMME A CIGAR"
212. THE HERALD OF GLAD NEWS
213. FLAG-TAIL-PIECE
214. A NEW ENGLAND SCENE
215. A VARIABLE CLIMATE
216. SACRAMENTO AND THREE NODES AWAY
217. "FETCH HER OUT ...
218. "WELL IF IT AINT A CHILD ...
219. A GENUINE LIVE WOMAN
220. THE GRACE OF A KANGAROO
221. DREAMS DISSIPATED
222. THE “ONE HORSE SHAY” OUTDONE
223. HARD ON THE INNOCENTS
224. DRY BONES SHAKEN
225. "OH! WHAT, SHALL I DO!...
226. "GET OUT YOUR TOWEL MY DEAR"
227. "WE WILL OMIT THE BENEDICTION...
228. SLINKING
229. A PRIZE
230. A LOOK IN AT THE WINDOW
231. "DO IT STRANGER"
232. THE OLD COLLEGIATE
233. STRIKING A POCKET
234. TOM QUARTZ
235. AN ADVANTAGE TAKEN
236. AFTER AN EXCURSION
237. THE THREE CAPTAINS
238. THE OLD ADMIRAL
239. THE DESERTED FIELD
240. WILLIAMS
241. SCENE ON THE SANDWICH ISLANDS
242. FASHIONABLE ATTIRE
243. A BITE
244. RECONNOITERING
246. LOOKING FOR MISCHIEF
247. A FAMILY LIKENESS
248. SIT DOWN To LISTEN
249. "MY BROTHER, WE TWINS"
250. EXTRAORDINARY CAPERS
251. A LOAD OF HAY
252. MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA
253. SANDWICH ISLAND GIRLS
254. ORIGINAL HAM SANDWICH
255. "I KISSED HIM FOR HIS MOTHER"
256. AN OUTSIDER
257. AN ENEMY’S PRAYER
258. VISITING THE MISSIONARIES
259. FULL CHURCH DRESS
260. PLAYING EMPIRE
261. ROYALTY AND ITS SATELLITES
262. A HIGH PRIVATE
263. A MODERN FUNERAL
264. FORMER FUNERAL ORGIES
265. A PASSENGER
266. MOONLIGHT ON THE WATER
267. GOING INTO THE MOUNTAINS
268. EVENING
289. THE DEMENTED
270. DISCUSSING TURNIPS
271. GREELEY’S LETTER
272. KEALAKEKUA BAY AND COOK’S MONUMENT
273. THE GHOSTLY BUILDERS
274. ON GUARD
275. BREAKING THE TABU
276. SURF BATHING
277. SURF BATHING A FAILURE
278. CITY OF REFUGE
279. THE QUEEN’S ROCK
280. TAIL-PIECE
281. THE PILLAR OF FIRE
282. THE CRATER
283. BROKE THROUGH
284. FIRE FOUNTAINS
285. LAVA STREAM
286. A TIDAL WAVE
287. TRIP ON THE MILKY WAY
288. A VIEW IN THE TAO VALLEY
289. MAGNIFICENT SPORT
290. ELEVEN MILES TO SEE
291. CHASED BY A STORM
292. LEAVING WORK
293. TAIL-PIECE
294. OUR AMUSEMENTS
295. SEVERE CASE OF STAGE FRIGHT
296. MY THREE PARQUETTE ALLIES
297. SAWYER IN THE CIRCLE
298. A PREDICAMENT
299. THE BEST OF THE JOKE
300. THE END






THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

CONTENTS

I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper.
II. Tom’s early life.
III.   Tom’s meeting with the Prince.
IV. The Prince’s troubles begin.
V. Tom as a patrician.
VI. Tom receives instructions.
VII.   Tom’s first royal dinner.
VIII.   The question of the Seal.
IX. The river pageant.
X. The Prince in the toils.
XI. At Guildhall.
XII. The Prince and his deliverer.
XIII.   The disappearance of the Prince.
XIV. ‘Le Roi est mort’—vive le Roi.‘
XV. Tom as King.
XVI. The state dinner.
XVII.   Foo-foo the First.
XVIII.   The Prince with the tramps.
XIX. The Prince with the peasants.
XX. The Prince and the hermit.
XXI. Hendon to the rescue.
XXII. A victim of treachery.
XXIII.   The Prince a prisoner.
XXIV. The escape.
XXV. Hendon Hall.
XXVI. Disowned.
XXVII. In prison.
XXVIII.   The sacrifice.
XXIX. To London.
XXX. Tom’s progress.
XXXI. The Recognition procession.
XXXII. Coronation Day.
XXXIII. Edward as King.
CONCLUSION.   Justice and Retribution.
  Notes.

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE GREAT SEAL (frontispiece)
THE BIRTH OF THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER
"SPLENDID PAGEANTS AND GREAT BONFIRES"
TOM’S EARLY LIFE
OFFAL COURT
"WITH ANY MISERABLE CRUST"
"HE OFTEN READ THE PRIEST’S BOOKS"
"SAW POOR ANNE ASKEW BURNED"
"BROUGHT THEIR PERPLEXITIES TO TOM"
"LONGING FOR THE PORK-PIES”
TOM’S MEETING WITH THE PRINCE
"AT TEMPLE BAR"
"LET HIM IN"
"HOW OLD BE THESE
"DOFF THY RAGS, AND DON THESE SPLENDORS"  
"I SALUTE YOUR GRACIOUS HIGHNESS!”
THE PRINCE’S TROUBLES BEGIN
"SET UPON BY DOGS"
"A DRUNKEN RUFFIAN COLLARED HIM"
TOM AS A PATRICIAN
"NEXT HE DREW THE SWORD"
"RESOLVED TO FLY"
"THE BOY WAS ON HIS KNEES"
"NOBLES WALKED UPON EACH SIDE OF HIM"
"HE DROPPED UPON HIS KNEES"
"HE TURNED WITH JOYFUL FACE"
"THE PHYSICIAN BOWED LOW"
"THE KING FELL BACK UPON HIS COUCH"
"IS THIS MAN TO LIVE FOREVER?"
TOM RECEIVES INSTRUCTIONS
"PRITHEE, INSIST NOT"
"THE LORD ST. JOHN MADE REVERENCE"
HERTFORD AND THE PRINCESSES
"SHE MADE REVERENCE"
"OFFERED IT TO HIM ON A GOLDEN SALVER"
"THEY MUSED A WHILE"
"PEACE MY LORD, THOU UTTEREST TREASON!”
"HE BEGAN TO PACE THE FLOOR"
TOM’S FIRST ROYAL DINNER
"FASTENED A NAPKIN ABOUT HIS NECK"
"TOM ATE WITH HIS FINGERS"
"HE GRAVELY TOOK A DRAUGHT"
"TOM PUT ON THE GREAVES"
THE QUESTION OF THE SEAL
"EASED HIM BACK UPON HIS PILLOWS"
THE RIVER PAGEANT
"HALBERDIERS APPEARED IN THE GATEWAY"
"TOM CANTY STEPPED INTO VIEW"
THE PRINCE IN THE TOILS
"A DIM FORM SANK TO THE GROUND"
"WHO ART THOU?"
"INTO GOOD WIFE CANTY’S ARMS"
"BENT HEEDFULLY AND WARILY OVER HIM"
"THE PRINCE SPRANG UP"
"HURRIED HIM ALONG THE DARK WAY"
"HE WASTE NO TIME"
AT GUILDHALL
"A RICH CANOPY OF STATE"
"BEGAN TO LAY ABOUT HIM"
"LONG LIVE THE KING!”
THE PRINCE AND HIS DELIVERER
"OUR FRIENDS THREADED THEIR WAY"
"OBJECT LESSONS” IN ENGLISH HISTORY
"JOHN CANTY MOVED OFF"
"SMOOTHING BACK THE TANGLED CURLS"
"PRITHEE, POUR THE WATER"
"GO ON—TELL ME THY STORY
"THOU HAST BEEN SHAMEFULLY ABUSED"
"HE DROPPED ON ONE KNEE"
"RISE, SIR MILES HENDON, BARONET"
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE PRINCE
"HE DROPPED ASLEEP"
"THESE BE VERY GOOD AND SOUND"
"EXPLAIN, THOU LIMB OF SATAN"
"HENDON FOLLOWED AFTER HIM"
"LE ROI EST MORT-VIVE LE ROI"
"WILT DEIGN TO DELIVER THY COMMANDS?"
"LORD OF THE BEDCHAMBER"
"A SECRETARY OF STATE"
"STOOD AT GRACEFUL EASE"
”’TIS I THAT TAKE THEM"
"BUT TAX YOUR MEMORY"
TOM AS KING
"TOM HAD WANDERED TO A WINDOW"
"TOM SCANNED THE PRISONERS"
"LET THE PRISONER GO FREE!”
"WHAT IS IT THAT THESE HAVE DONE?"
"NODDED THEIR RECOGNITION"
THE STATE DINNER
"A GENTLEMAN BEARING A ROD"
"THE CHANCELLOR BETWEEN TWO"
"I THANK YOU MY GOOD PEOPLE"
"IN THE MIDST OF HIS PAGEANT"
FOO-FOO THE FIRST
"RUFFIAN FOLLOWED THEIR STEPS"
"HE SEIZED A BILLET OF WOOD"
"HE WAS SOON ABSORBED IN THINKING"
"A GRIM AND UNSIGHTLY PICTURE"
"THEY ROARED OUT A ROLLICKING DITTY"
"WHILST THE FLAMES LICKED UPWARDS"
"THEY WERE WHIPPED AT THE CART’S TAIL"
"THOU SHALT NOT"
"KNOCKING HOBBS DOWN"
"THRONE HIM"
THE PRINCE WITH THE TRAMPS
"TROOP OF VAGABONDS SET FORWARD"
"THEY THREW BONES AND VEGETABLES
"WRITHE AND WALLOW IN THE DIRT"
"KING FLED IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION"
"HE STUMBLED ALONG"
"WHAT SEEMED TO BE A WARM ROPE"
"CUDDLED UP TO THE CALF"
THE PRINCE WITH THE PEASANTS
"TOOK A GOOD SATISFYING STARE"
"MOTHER RECEIVED THE KING KINDLY"
"BROUGHT THE KING OUT OF HIS DREAMS"
"GAVE HIM A BUTCHER KNIFE TO GRIND"
THE PRINCE AND THE HERMIT
"HE TURNED AND DESCRIED TWO FIGURES"
"THE KING ENTERED AND PAUSED"
"I WILL TELL YOU A SECRET"
"CHATTING PLEASANTLY ALL THE TIME"
"DREW HIS THUMB ALONG THE EDGE"
"THE NEXT MOMENT THEY WERE BOUND"
HENDON TO THE RESCUE
"SUNK UPON HIS KNEES"
"GOD MADE EVERY CREATURE BUT YOU!”
"THE FETTERED LITTLE KING"
A VICTIM OF TREACHERY
"HUGO STOOD NO CHANCE"
"BOUND THE POULTICE TIGHT AND FAST"
"TARRY HERE TILL I COME AGAIN
"KING SPRANG TO HIS DELIVERER’S SIDE"
THE PRINCE A PRISONER
"GENTLY, GOOD FRIEND"
"SHE SPRANG TO HER FEET"
THE ESCAPE
"THE PIG MAY COST THY NECK, MAN"
"BEAR ME UP, BEAR ME UP, SWEET SIR!”
HENDON HALL
"JOGGING EASTWARD ON SORRY STEEDS"
"THERE IS THE VILLAGE, MY PRINCE!”
”’EMBRACE ME, HUGH,’ HE CRIED"
"HUGH PUT UP HIS HAND IN DISSENT"
"A BEAUTIFUL LADY, RICHLY CLOTHED"
"HUGH WAS PINNED TO THE WALL"
DISOWNED
"OBEY, AND HAVE NO FEAR"
"AM I MILES HENDON?"
IN PRISON
"CHAINED IN A LARGE ROOM"
"THE OLD MAN LOOKED HENDON OVER"
"INFORMATION DELIVERED IN A LOW VOICE"
"THE KING!” HE CRIED. “WHAT KING?"
"TWO WOMEN CHAINED TO POSTS"
"TORN AWAY BY THE OFFICERS"
"THE KING WAS FURIOUS"
THE SACRIFICE
"HE CONFRONTED THE OFFICER IN CHARGE"
"WHILE THE LASH WAS APPLIED"
"SIR HUGH SPURRED AWAY"
TO LONDON
"MOUNTED AND RODE OFF WITH THE KING"
"MIDST OF A JAM OF HOWLING PEOPLE"
TOM’S PROGRESS
"TO KISS HIS HAND AT PARTING"
"COMMANDED HER TO GO TO HER CLOSET"
THE RECOGNITION PROCESSION
THE START FOR THE TOWER
"WELCOME, O KING!”
"A LARGESS! A LARGESS!”
"SHE WAS AT HIS SIDE"
"IT IS AN ILL TIME FOR DREAMING"
"SHE WAS MY MOTHER"
CORONATION DAY
"GATHERS UP THE LADY’S LONG TRAIN"
"TOM CANTY APPEARED"
"AND FELL ON HIS KNEES BEFORE HIM"
"THE GREAT SEAL—FETCH IT HITHER"
"SIRE, THE SEAL IS NOT THERE"
"BETHINK THEE, MY KING"
"LONG LIVE THE TRUE KING!”
"TO CRACK NUTS WITH"
EDWARD AS KING
"HE STRETCHED HIMSELF ON THE GROUND"
"ARRESTED AS A SUSPICIOUS CHARACTER"
"IT IS HIS RIGHT"
"STRIP THIS ROBBER"
"TOM ROSE AND KISSED THE KING’S HAND"
JUSTICE AND RETRIBUTION
NOTES






A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.    CAMELOT
CHAPTER II.   KING ARTHUR’S COURT
CHAPTER III.   KNIGHTS OF THE TABLE ROUND
CHAPTER IV.   SIR DINADAN THE HUMORIST
CHAPTER V.   AN INSPIRATION
CHAPTER VI.   THE ECLIPSE
CHAPTER VII.   MERLIN’S TOWER
CHAPTER VIII.   THE BOSS
CHAPTER IX.   THE TOURNAMENT
CHAPTER X.   BEGINNINGS OF CIVILIZATION
CHAPTER XI.    THE YANKEE IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURES
CHAPTER XII. SLOW TORTURE
CHAPTER XIII.    FREEMEN!
CHAPTER XIV. “DEFEND THEE, LORD!
CHAPTER XV. SANDY’S TALE
CHAPTER XVI. MORGAN LE FAY
CHAPTER XVII.   A ROYAL BANQUET
CHAPTER XVIII.   IN THE QUEEN’S DUNGEONS
CHAPTER XIX.   KNIGHT ERRANTRY AS A TRADE
CHAPTER XX.    THE OGRE’S CASTLE
CHAPTER XXI.   THE PILGRIMS
CHAPTER XXII.   THE HOLY FOUNTAIN
CHAPTER XXIII.   RESTORATION OF THE FOUNTAIN
CHAPTER XXIV. A RIVAL MAGICIAN
CHAPTER XXV. A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
CHAPTER XXVI. THE FIRST NEWSPAPER
CHAPTER XXVII. THE YANKEE AND THE KING TRAVEL INCOGNITO
CHAPTER XXVIII.   DRILLING THE KING
CHAPTER XXIX. THE SMALL-POX HUT
CHAPTER XXX. THE TRAGEDY OF THE MANOR-HOUSE
CHAPTER XXXI. MARCO
CHAPTER XXXII. DOWLEY’S HUMILIATION
CHAPTER XXXIII.   SIXTH CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMY
CHAPTER XXXIV. THE YANKEE AND THE KING SOLD AS SLAVES
CHAPTER XXXV. A PITIFUL INCIDENT
CHAPTER XXXVI. AN ENCOUNTER IN THE DARK
CHAPTER XXXVII. AN AWFUL PREDICAMENT
CHAPTER XXXVIII.   SIR LAUNCELOT AND KNIGHTS TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE YANKEE’S FIGHT WITH THE KNIGHTS
CHAPTER XL. THREE YEARS LATER
CHAPTER XLI. THE INTERDICT
CHAPTER XLII. WAR!
CHAPTER XLIII.   THE BATTLE OF THE SAND-BELT
CHAPTER XLIV. A POSTSCRIPT BY CLARENCE






LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I.
The Mississippi is Well worth Reading about.—It is Remarkable.—
Instead of Widening towards its Mouth, it grows Narrower.—It Empties
four hundred and six million Tons of Mud.—It was First Seen in 1542.
—It is Older than some Pages in European History.—De Soto has
the Pull.—Older than the Atlantic Coast.—Some Half-breeds chip
in.—La Salle Thinks he will Take a Hand.

CHAPTER II.
La Salle again Appears, and so does a Cat-fish.—Buffaloes also.
—Some Indian Paintings are Seen on the Rocks.—“The Father of
Waters “does not Flow into the Pacific.—More History and Indians.
—Some Curious Performances—not Early English.—Natchez, or
the Site of it, is Approached.
CHAPTER III.
A little History.—Early Commerce.—Coal Fleets and Timber Rafts.
—We start on a Voyage.—I seek Information.—Some Music.—The
Trouble begins.—Tall Talk.—The Child of Calamity.—Ground
and lofty Tumbling.—The Wash-up.—Business and Statistics.—
Mysterious Band.—Thunder and Lightning.—The Captain speaks.
—Allbright weeps.—The Mystery settled.—Chaff.—I am Discovered.
—Some Art-work proposed.—I give an Account of Myself.—Released.
CHAPTER IV.
The Boys' Ambition.—Village Scenes.—Steamboat Pictures.
—A Heavy Swell.—A Runaway.
CHAPTER V.
A Traveller.—A Lively Talker.—A Wild-cat Victim
CHAPTER VI.
Besieging the Pilot.—Taken along.—Spoiling a Nap.—Fishing for a
Plantation.—“Points” on the River.—A Gorgeous Pilot-house.
CHAPTER VII.
River Inspectors.—Cottonwoods and Plum Point.—Hat-Island Crossing.
—Touch and Go.—It is a Go.—A Lightning Pilot
CHAPTER VIII.
A Heavy-loaded Big Gun.—Sharp Sights in Darkness.—Abandoned to
his Fate.—Scraping the Banks.—Learn him or Kill him.
CHAPTER IX.
Shake the Reef.—Reason Dethroned.—The Face of the Water.
—A Bewitching Scene.-Romance and Beauty.
CHAPTER X.
Putting on Airs.—Taken down a bit.—Learn it as it is.—The River
Rising.
CHAPTER XI.
In thg Tract Business.—Effects of the Rise.—Plantations gone.
—A Measureless Sea.—A Somnambulist Pilot.—Supernatural Piloting.
—Nobody there.—All Saved.
CHAPTER XII.
Low Water.—Yawl sounding.—Buoys and Lanterns.—Cubs and
Soundings.—The Boat Sunk.—Seeking the Wrecked.
CHAPTER XIII.
A Pilot's Memory.—Wages soaring.—A Universal Grasp.—Skill and
Nerve.—Testing a “Cub.”—“Back her for Life.”—A Good Lesson.
CHAPTER XIV.
Pilots and Captains.—High-priced Pilots.—Pilots in Demand.
—A Whistler.—A cheap Trade.—Two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar Speed.
CHAPTER XV.
New Pilots undermining the Pilots' Association.—Crutches and Wages.
—Putting on Airs.—The Captains Weaken.—The Association Laughs.
—The Secret Sign.—An Admirable System.—Rough on Outsiders.
—A Tight Monopoly.—No Loophole.—The Railroads and the War.
CHAPTER XVI.
All Aboard.—A Glorious Start.—Loaded to Win.—Bands and Bugles.
—Boats and Boats.—Racers and Racing.
CHAPTER XVII.
Cut-offs.—Ditching and Shooting.—Mississippi Changes.—A Wild
Night.—Swearing and Guessing.—Stephen in Debt.—He Confuses
his Creditors.—He makes a New Deal.—Will Pay them Alphabetically.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Sharp Schooling.—Shadows.—I am Inspected.—Where did you get
them Shoes?—Pull her Down.—I want to kill Brown.—I try to run
her.- I am Complimented.
CHAPTER XIX.
A Question of Veracity.—A Little Unpleasantness.—I have an
Audience with the Captain.—Mr. Brown Retires.
CHAPTER XX.
I become a Passenger.—We hear the News.—A Thunderous Crash.
—They Stand to their Posts.—In the Blazing Sun.—A Grewsome
Spectacle.—His Hour has Struck.
CHAPTER XXI.
I get my License.—The War Begins.—I become a Jack-of-all-trades.
CHAPTER XXII.
I try the Alias Business.—Region of Goatees—Boots begin to Appear.
—The River Man is Missing.—The Young Man is Discouraged.—
Specimen Water.—A Fine Quality of Smoke.—A Supreme Mistake.
—We Inspect the Town.—Desolation Way-traffic.—A Wood-yard.
CHAPTER XXIII.
Old French Settlements.—We start for Memphis.—Young Ladies and
Russia-leather Bags.
CHAPTER XXIV.
I receive some Information.—Alligator Boats.—Alligator Talk.
—She was a Rattler to go.—I am Found Out.
CHAPTER XXV.
The Devil's Oven and Table.—A Bombshell falls.—No Whitewash.
—Thirty Years on the River.-Mississippi Uniforms.—Accidents and
Casualties.—Two hundred Wrecks.—A Loss to Literature.—Sunday-
Schools and Brick Masons.
CHAPTER XXVI.
War Talk.—I Tilt over Backwards.—Fifteen Shot-holes.—A Plain
Story.—Wars and Feuds.—Darnell versus Watson.—A Gang and
a Woodpile.—Western Grammar.—River Changes.—New Madrid.
—Floods and Falls.
CHAPTER XXVII.
Tourists and their Note-books.—Captain Hall.—Mrs. Trollope's
Emotions.—Hon. Charles Augustus Murray's Sentiment.—Captain
Marryat's Sensations.—Alexander Mackay's Feelings.
—Mr. Parkman Reports
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Swinging down the River.—Named for Me.—Plum Point again.
—Lights and Snag Boats.—Infinite Changes.—A Lawless River.
—Changes and Jetties.—Uncle Mumford Testifies.—Pegging the
River.—What the Government does.—The Commission.—Men and
Theories.—“Had them Bad.”—Jews and Prices.
CHAPTER XXIX.
Murel's Gang.—A Consummate Villain.—Getting Rid of Witnesses.
—Stewart turns Traitor.—I Start a Rebellion.—I get a New Suit
of Clothes.—We Cover our Tracks.—Pluck and Capacity.—A Good
Samaritan City.—The Old and the New.
CHAPTER XXX.
A Melancholy Picture.—On the Move.—River Gossip.—She Went By
a-Sparklin'.—Amenities of Life.—A World of Misinformation.—
Eloquence of Silence.—Striking a Snag.—Photographically Exact.
—Plank Side-walks.
CHAPTER XXXI.
Mutinous Language.—The Dead-house.—Cast-iron German and Flexible
English.—A Dying Man's Confession.—I am Bound and Gagged.
—I get Myself Free.—I Begin my Search.—The Man with one Thumb.
—Red Paint and White Paper.—He Dropped on his Knees.—Fright
and Gratitude.—I Fled through the Woods.—A Grisly Spectacle.
—Shout, Man, Shout.—A look of Surprise and Triumph.—The Muffled
Gurgle of a Mocking Laugh.—How strangely Things happen.
—The Hidden Money.
CHAPTER XXXII.
Ritter's Narrative.—A Question of Money.—Napoleon.—Somebody
is Serious.—Where the Prettiest Girl used to Live.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
A Question of Division.—A Place where there was no License.—The
Calhoun Land Company.—A Cotton-planter's Estimate.—Halifax
and Watermelons.—Jewelled-up Bar-keepers.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
An Austere Man.—A Mosquito Policy.—Facts dressed in Tights.
—A  swelled Left Ear.
CHAPTER XXXV.
Signs and Scars.—Cannon-thunder Rages.—Cave-dwellers.
—A Continual Sunday.—A ton of Iron and no Glass.—The Ardent
is Saved.—Mule Meat—A National Cemetery.—A Dog and a Shell.
—Railroads and Wealth.—Wharfage Economy.—Vicksburg versus The
“Gold Dust.”—A Narrative in Anticipation.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
The Professor Spins a Yarn.—An Enthusiast in Cattle.—He makes a
Proposition.—Loading Beeves at Acapulco.—He was n't Raised to it.
—He is Roped In.—His Dull Eyes Lit Up.—Four Aces, you Ass!
—He does n't Care for the Gores.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
A Terrible Disaster.—The “Gold Dust” explodes her Boilers.
—The End of a Good Man.
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Mr. Dickens has a Word.—Best Dwellings and their Furniture.—Albums
and Music.—Pantelettes and Conch-shells.—Sugar-candy Rabbits
and Photographs.—Horse-hair Sofas and Snuffers.—Rag Carpets
and Bridal Chambers.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
Rowdies and Beauty.—Ice as Jewelry.—Ice Manufacture.—More
Statistics.—Some Drummers.—Oleomargarine versus Butter.
—Olive Oil versus Cotton Seed.—The Answer was not Caught.
—A Terrific Episode.—A Sulphurous Canopy.—The Demons of War.
—The Terrible Gauntlet.
CHAPTER XL.
In Flowers, like a Bride.—A White-washed Castle.—A Southern
Prospectus.—Pretty Pictures.—An Alligator's Meal.
CHAPTER XLI.
The Approaches to New Orleans.—A Stirring Street.—Sanitary
Improvements.—Journalistic Achievements.—Cisterns and Wells.
CHAPTER XLII.
Beautiful Grave-yards.—Chameleons and Panaceas.—Inhumation and
Infection.—Mortality and Epidemics.—The Cost of Funerals.
CHAPTER XLIII.
I meet an Acquaintance.—Coffins and Swell Houses.—Mrs. O'Flaherty
goes One Better.—Epidemics and Embamming.—Six hundred for a
Good Case.—Joyful High Spirits.
CHAPTER XLIV.
French and Spanish Parts of the City.—Mr. Cable and the Ancient
Quarter.—Cabbages and Bouquets.—Cows and Children.—The Shell
Road. The West End.—A Good Square Meal.—The Pompano.—The Broom-
Brigade.—Historical Painting.—Southern Speech.—Lagniappe.
CHAPTER XLV.
“Waw” Talk.—Cock-Fighting.—Too Much to Bear.—Fine Writing.
—Mule Racing.
CHAPTER XLVI.
Mardi-Gras.—The Mystic Crewe.—Rex and Relics.—Sir Walter Scott.
—A World Set Back.—Titles and Decorations.—A Change.
CHAPTER XLVII.
Uncle Remus.—The Children Disappointed.—We Read Aloud.
—Mr. Cable and Jean au Poquelin.—Involuntary Trespass.—The Gilded
Age.—An Impossible Combination.—The Owner Materializes and Protests.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
Tight Curls and Springy Steps.—Steam-plows.—“No. I.” Sugar.
—A Frankenstein Laugh.—Spiritual Postage.—A Place where there are
no Butchers or Plumbers.—Idiotic Spasms.
CHAPTER XLIX.
Pilot-Farmers.—Working on Shares.—Consequences.—Men who Stick
to their Posts.—He saw what he would do.—A Day after the Fair.
CHAPTER L.
A Patriarch.—Leaves from a Diary.—A Tongue-stopper.—The Ancient
Mariner.—Pilloried in Print.—Petrified Truth.
CHAPTER LI.
A Fresh “Cub” at the Wheel.—A Valley Storm.—Some Remarks on
Construction.—Sock and Buskin.—The Man who never played
Hamlet.—I got Thirsty.—Sunday Statistics.
CHAPTER LII.
I Collar an Idea.—A Graduate of Harvard.—A Penitent Thief.
—His Story in the Pulpit.—Something Symmetrical.—A Literary Artist.
—A Model Epistle.—Pumps again Working.—The “Nub” of the Note.
CHAPTER LIII.
A Masterly Retreat.—A Town at Rest.—Boyhood's Pranks.—Friends
of my Youth.—The Refuge for Imbeciles.—I am Presented with
my Measure.
CHAPTER LIV.
A Special Judgment.—Celestial Interest.—A Night of Agony.
—Another Bad Attack.—I become Convalescent.—I address a
Sunday-school.—A Model Boy.
CHAPTER LV.
A second Generation.—A hundred thousand Tons of Saddles.—A Dark
and Dreadful Secret.—A Large Family.—A Golden-haired Darling.
—The Mysterious Cross.—My Idol is Broken.—A Bad Season of
Chills and Fever.—An Interesting Cave.
CHAPTER LVI.
Perverted History—A Guilty Conscience.—A Supposititious Case.
—A Habit to be Cultivated.—I Drop my Burden.—Difference in Time.
CHAPTER LVII.
A Model Town.—A Town that Comes up to Blow in the Summer.
—The Scare-crow Dean.—Spouting Smoke and Flame.—An Atmosphere
that tastes good.—The Sunset Land.
CHAPTER LVIII.
An Independent Race.—Twenty-four-hour Towns.—Enchanting Scenery.
—The Home of the Plow.—Black Hawk.—Fluctuating Securities.
—A Contrast.—Electric Lights.
CHAPTER LIX.
Indian Traditions and Rattlesnakes.—A Three-ton Word.—Chimney
Rock.—The Panorama Man.—A Good Jump.—The Undying Head.
—Peboan and Seegwun.
CHAPTER LX.
The Head of Navigation.—From Roses to Snow.—Climatic Vaccination.
—A Long Ride.—Bones of Poverty.—The Pioneer of Civilization.
—Jug of Empire.—Siamese Twins.—The Sugar-bush.—He Wins his Bride.
—The Mystery about the Blanket.—A City that is always a Novelty.
—Home again.
APPENDIX.
         A
         B
         C
         D