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MARK TWAIN Episodes

Aug. 17, 2025

MY WATCH and MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE by MARK TWAIN

MY WATCH: A humurous piece describing the narrator's futile efforts to get his watch fixed MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE: An autobiographical piece describing Twain as a young typesetter in Hannibal who gets a rare chance to writ...

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Jan. 8, 2018

JIM BAKER'S BLUE JAY YARN by MARK TWAIN

Jim Baker's BlueJay Yarn by Mark Twain-When Mark Twain stayed in a California gold camp in 1864-65 he picked up a lot of story ideas.  With his unique brand of humor, he manages to compare the labors of men digging things out of empty holes to...

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