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The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories: And Other Stories

by Mark Twain. 388 pgs.

Contributors:

   Mark Twain

Publisher:

   P.F. Collier & Son Corporation

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1917

Subjects:

Short Stories, American

	CONTENTS
	THE $30,000 BEQUEST PAGE	1
	A DOG'S TALE	48
	WAS IT HEAVEN? OR HELL?	65
	A CURE FOR THE BLUES	99
	THE ENEMY CONQUERED; OR, LOVE TRIUMPHANT	123
	THE CALIFORNIAN'S TALE	184
	A HELPLESS SITUATION	196
	A TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION	204
	EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE	209
	THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE	218
	THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES	224
	ITALIAN WITHOUT A MASTER	229
	ITALIAN WITH GRAMMAR	243
	A BURLESQUE BIOGRAPHY	254
	HOW TO TELL A STORY	263
	GENERAL WASHINGTON'S NEGRO BODY-SERVANT	271
	WIT INSPIRATIONS OF THE "TWO-YEAR-OLDS"	276
	AN ENTERTAINING ARTICLE	281
	A LETTER TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY	291
	AMENDED OBITUARIES	292
	A MONUMENT TO ADAM	296
	A HUMANE WORD FROM SATAN	299
	INTRODUCTION TO "THE NEW GUIDE OF THE CONVERSATION IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH"	301
	ADVICE TO LITTLE GIRLS	305
	POST-MORTEM POETRY	307
	THE DANGER OF LYING IN BED	315
	PORTRAIT OF KING WILLIAM III.	320
	DOES THE RACE OF MAN LOVE A LORD?	325
	EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY	342
	EVE'S DIARY	357

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