...e in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...u don’t look it! Come, my boy, I am a stranger and friendless; be honest and honorable with me. Are you in your right mind?” He said he was. “Are thes... ... Arthur’s Court Mark Twain 17 “and then,” said he, “if ye find glory and honor due, ye will give it unto him who is the mightiest man of his hand... ...ed to frighten me. One of my deepest secrets was my West Point — my military academy. I kept that most jealously out of sight; and I did the same with... ...y. I kept that most jealously out of sight; and I did the same with my naval academy which I had established at a remote seaport. Both were prosperin... ...istic style was climbing, steadily; it was already up to the back settlement Alabama mark, and couldn’t be told from the editorial output of that regi... ...me a stockholder in a corporation where nine hundred and ninety four of the members furnished all the money and did all the work, and the other six e... ...on the floor. At this, above the salt, sat the visiting nobles and the grown members of their families, of both sexes, — the resident Court, in effec...

... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. This Por table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ..., add to them, and cheerfully pass them forward. 11 As I have walk’d in Alabama my morning walk, I have seen where the she bird the mocking bird ... ...s with the scalper, and this is a mathematician. Gentlemen, to you the first honors always! Your facts are useful, and yet they are not my dwelling, I... ...ce, Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone, They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv’d writing and seal, gave up their arms and... ...peninsula—always the priceless delta of ouisiana—always the cotton fields of Alabama and Texas, Always California’s golden hills and hollows, and the ... ...e, rail, prop, wainscot, lamb, lath, panel, gable, Citadel, ceiling, saloon, academy, organ, exhibition house, library, Cornice, trellis, pilaster, ba... ...e, the gestation of new States, Congress convening every T welfth month, the members duly coming up from the uttermost parts, Surrounding the noble ch...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...