The Boys' Life of Mark Twain

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Paine Albert Bigelow. The Boys' Life of Mark Twain

PREFACE

I. THE FAMILY OF JOHN CLEMENS

II. THE NEW HOME, AND UNCLE JOHN QUARLES'S FARM

III. SCHOOL

IV. EDUCATION OUT OF SCHOOL

V. TOM SAWYER AND HIS BAND

VI. CLOSING SCHOOL-DAYS

VII. THE APPRENTICE

VIII. ORION'S PAPER

IX. THE OPEN ROAD

X. A WIND OF CHANCE

XI. THE LONG WAY TO THE AMAZON

XII. RENEWING AN OLD AMBITION

XIII. LEARNING THE RIVER

XIV. RIVER DAYS

XV. THE WRECK OF THE "PENNSYLVANIA"

XVI. THE PILOT

XVII. THE END OF PILOTING

XVIII. THE SOLDIER

XIX. THE PIONEER

XX. THE MINER

XXI. THE TERRITORIAL ENTERPRISE

XXII "MARK TWAIN"

XXIII. ARTEMUS WARD AND LITERARY SAN FRANCISCO

XXIV. THE DISCOVERY OF "THE JUMPING FROG"

XXV. HAWAII AND ANSON BURLINGAME

XXVI. MARK TWAIN, LECTURER

XXVII. AN INNOCENT ABROAD, AND HOME AGAIN

XXVIII. OLIVIA LANGDON. WORK ON THE "INNOCENTS"

XXIX. THE VISIT TO ELMIRA AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

XXX. THE NEW BOOK AND A WEDDING

XXXI. MARK TWAIN IN BUFFALO

XXXII. AT WORK ON "ROUGHING IT"

XXXIII. IN ENGLAND

XXXIV. A NEW BOOK AND NEW ENGLISH TRIUMPHS

XXXV. BEGINNING "TOM SAWYER"

XXXVI. THE NEW HOME

XXXVII "OLD TIMES," "SKETCHES," AND "TOM SAWYER"

XXXVIII. HOME PICTURES

XXXIX. TRAMPING ABROAD

XL "THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER"

XLI. GENERAL GRANT AT HARTFORD

XLII. MANY INVESTMENTS

XLIII. BACK TO THE RIVER, WITH BIXBY

XLIV. A READING-TOUR WITH CABLE

XLV "THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN"

XLVI. PUBLISHER TO GENERAL GRANT

XLVII. THE HIGH-TIDE OF FORTUNE

XLVIII. BUSINESS DIFFICULTIES. PLEASANTER THINGS

XLIX. KIPLING AT ELMIRA. ELSIE LESLIE. THE "YANKEE"

L. THE MACHINE. GOOD-BY TO HARTFORD. "JOAN" IS BEGUN

LI. THE FAILURE OF WEBSTER & CO. AROUND THE WORLD. SORROW

LII. EUROPEAN ECONOMIES

LIII. MARK TWAIN PAYS HIS DEBTS

LIV. RETURN AFTER EXILE

LV. A PROPHET AT HOME

LVI. HONORED BY MISSOURI

LVII. THE CLOSE OF A BEAUTIFUL LIFE

LVIII. MARK TWAIN AT SEVENTY

LIX. MARK TWAIN ARRANGES FOR HIS BIOGRAPHY

LX. WORKING WITH MARK TWAIN

LXI. DICTATIONS AT DUBLIN, N. H

LXII. A NEW ERA OF BILLIARDS

LXIII. LIVING WITH MARK TWAIN

LXIV. A DEGREE FROM OXFORD

LXV. THE REMOVAL TO REDDING

LXVI. LIFE AT STORMFIELD

LXVII. THE DEATH OF JEAN

LXVIII. DAYS IN BERMUDA

LXIX. THE RETURN TO REDDING

LXX. THE CLOSE OF A GREAT LIFE

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A long time ago, back in the early years of another century, a family named Clemens moved from eastern Tennessee to eastern Missouri—from a small, unheard-of place called Pall Mall, on Wolf River, to an equally small and unknown place called Florida, on a tiny river named the Salt.

That was a far journey, in those days, for railway trains in 1835 had not reached the South and West, and John Clemens and his family traveled in an old two-horse barouche, with two extra riding-horses, on one of which rode the eldest child, Orion Clemens, a boy of ten, and on the other Jennie, a slave girl.

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It can be no harm now, to confess that the boy Sam Clemens—a pretty small boy, a good deal less than twelve at the time, and by no means large for his years—was the leader of this unhallowed band. In any case, truth requires this admission. If the band had a leader, it was Sam, just as it was Tom Sawyer in the book. They were always ready to listen to him—they would even stop fishing to do that—and to follow his plans. They looked to him for ideas and directions, and he gloried in being a leader and showing off, just as Tom did in the book. It seems almost a pity that in those far-off barefoot days he could not have looked down the years and caught a glimpse of his splendid destiny.

But of literary fame he could never have dreamed. The chief ambition —the "permanent ambition"—of every Hannibal boy was to be a pilot. The pilot in his splendid glass perch with his supreme power and princely salary was to them the noblest of all human creatures. An elder Bowen boy was already a pilot, and when he came home, as he did now and then, his person seemed almost too sacred to touch.

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