...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...r any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...e University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material c... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...id not know he was being nibbled at; but at last, chance accomplished what art had failed in. In illustration of some thing under discussion which re... ...ing away—we don’t know whither; and down comes the cur tain. McClintock’s art is subtle; McClintock’s art is deep. Not many days afterward, as surrou... ...vant of General Washington until May, 1825, at which time he died again. A Philadelphia paper thus speaks of the sad occurrence: At Macon, Ga., last w... ...eople unless they “sass” you first. POST MORTEM POETRY Written in 1870. In Philadelphia they have a custom which it would be pleas ant to see adopted... ...sands of pictures in my time—acres of them here and leagues of them in the galleries of Europe—but never any that moved me as these portraits do. Ther...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...