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Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories, by Mark Twain
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Title: The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories
Author: Mark Twain
Release Date: August 19, 2006 Posting Date: September 5, 2010 [EBook #3186]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER
by Mark Twain
Note: "The Mysterious Stranger" was written in 1898 and never finished. The editors of Twain's "Collected Works" completed the story prior to publication. At what point in this work Twain left off and where the editor's began is not made clear in the print copy used as the basis of this eBook.
Contents:
The Mysterious Stranger A Fable Hunting The Deceitful Turkey The McWilliamses And The Burglar Alarm
Chapter 1
It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all prou