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Editorial Wild Oats, by Mark Twain
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Title: Editorial Wild Oats
Author: Mark Twain
Release Date: October 6, 2006 [EBook #19484]
Language: English
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Editorial Wild Oats
BY
Mark Twain
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS--MCMV
Copyright, 1875, 1899, 1903, by SAMUEL L. CLEMENS.
Copyright, 1879, 1899, by SAMUEL L. CLEMENS.
Copyright, 1905, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
All rights reserved.
Published September, 1905.
[Illustration: See p. 57
"I FANCIED HE WAS DISPLEASED"]
Contents
PAGE MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE 3
JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE 11
NICODEMUS DODGE--PRINTER 30
MR. BLOKE'S ITEM 41
HOW I EDITED AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER 52
THE KILLING OF JULIUS CÆSAR "LOCALIZED" 70
Illustrations
"I FANCIED HE WAS DISPLEASED" Frontispiece
"HE HAD CONCLUDED HE WOULDN'T" Facing p. 4
"GILLESPIE HAD CALLED" " 24
"WHEEZING THE MUSIC