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Sketches New and Old, Part 2

Mark Twain

This second part continues Twain's anthology of mostly fictional tales, featuring diverse subjects from ghost stories to political satire.

"Sketches New and Old, Part 2." by Mark Twain is a collection of short stories. This second part continues Twain's anthology of mostly fictional tales, featuring diverse subjects from ghost stories to political satire.

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Seriously, from early youth I have taken an especial interest in the subject of poultry-raising, and so this membership touches a ready sympathy in my breast. Even as a schoolboy, poultry-raising was a study with me, and I may say without egotism that as early as the age of seventeen I was acquainted with all the best and speediest methods of raising chickens, from raising them off a roost by burning lucifer matches under their noses, down to lifting them off a fence on a frosty night by insinuating the end of a warm board under their heels. By the time I was twenty years old, I really suppose I had raised more poultry than any one individual in all the section round about there. The very chickens came to know my talent by and by. The youth of both sexes ceased to paw the earth for worms, and old roosters that came to crow, "remained to pray," when I passed by.

Contents

  1. 01Answers to Correspondents
  2. 02[written about 1865]
  3. 03To Raise Poultry
  4. 04[Being a letter written to a Poultry Society that had conferred a complimentary membership upon the author. Written about 1870.]
  5. 05Experience of the McWILLIAMSES with Membranous Croup
  6. 06[As related to the author of this book by Mr. McWilliams, a pleasant New York gentleman whom the said author met by chance on a journey.]
  7. 07My First Literary Venture
  8. 08[written about 1865]
  9. 09How the Author Was Sold in Newark
  10. 10[written about 1869]
  11. 11The Office Bore
  12. 12[written about 1869]
  13. 13Johnny Greer
  14. 14The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract
  15. 15[written about 1867]
  16. 16The United States
  17. 17The Case of George Fisher
  18. 18The United States in account with the legal representatives of George Fisher, deceased.

About this edition

Author
Mark Twain
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
81 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers