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Contents
One. The $30,000 Bequest
Two. A Dog's Tale
Three. Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
Four. A Cure For The Blues
Five. The Curious Book
Six. The Californian's Tale
Seven. A Helpless Situation
Eight. A Telephonic Conversation
Nine. Edward Mills And George Benton: A Tale
Ten. The Five Boons Of Life
Eleven. The First Writing-Machines
Twelve. Italian Without A Master
Thirteen. Italian With Grammar
Fourteen. A Burlesque Biography
Fifteen. How To Tell A Story
Sixteen. The Golden Arm
Seventeen. General Washington's Negro Body-Servant
Eighteen. Wit Inspirations Of The “Two-Year-Olds”
Nineteen. An Entertaining Article
Twenty. Reviews Of New Books
Twenty One. A Letter To The Secretary Of The Treasury
Twenty Two. Amended Obituaries
Twenty Three. A Monument To Adam
Twenty Four. A Humane Word From Satan
Twenty Five. Introduction To “The New Guide Of The Conversation In Portuguese And English”
Twenty Six. Advice To Little Girls
Twenty Seven. Post-Mortem Poetry
Twenty Eight. The Danger Of Lying In Bed
Twenty Nine. Portrait Of King William III
Thirty. Commendations Of The Portrait
Thirty One. Does The Race Of Man Love A Lord?
Thirty Two. Extracts From Adam's Diary
Thirty Three. Extracts From Adam’s Diary
Thirty Four. Extract From Adam's Diary
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Mark Twain
The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
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The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit—how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies—oh yes, and how soon and how easily our dream life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can’t quite tell which is which, any more.
By and by Aleck subscribed to a Chicago daily and for the Wall Street Pointer. With an eye single to finance she studied these as diligently all the week as she studied her Bible Sundays. Sally was lost in admiration, to note with what swift and sure strides her genius and judgment developed and expanded in the forecasting and handling of the securities of both the material and spiritual markets. He was proud of her nerve and daring in exploiting worldly stocks, and just as proud of her conservative caution in working her spiritual deals. He noted that she never lost her head in either case; that with a splendid courage she often went short on worldly futures, but heedfully drew the line there—she was always long on the others. Her policy was quite sane and simple, as she explained it to him: what she put into earthly futures was for speculation, what she put into spiritual futures was for investment; she was willing to go into the one on a margin, and take chances, but in the case of the other, “margin her no margins”—she wanted to cash in a hundred cents per dollar’s worth, and have the stock transferred on the books.
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