The writings of Mark Twain

Front matter

Vtia Libraiy

CoraeU Uoivetstty

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Preface

I HAVE scattered through this volume a mass of matter which has never been in print before, (such as " Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls," the "Jumping Frog restored to the English tongue after martyrdom in the French," the " Membranous Croup ' ' sketch, and many others which I need not specify) : not doing this in order to make an advertisement of it, but because these things seemed

instructive.

MARK TWAIN.

Haktfdsd, 1875.

ILLUSTRATIONS

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ENTERING

"FLIES, DAN'L, FLIES 1" . . F. B. Opper . . o 30 I FANCIED HE WAS DISPLEASED F. B. Opper . . . 309

Contents

MY WATCH — AN INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE TALE ... II

POLITICAL ECONOMY l6

STORY OF THE BAD LITTLE BOY 54