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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 208

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of his California days. The JumpingFrog had been translated into French, and inthis book Mark Twain published the French ver-sion and then a literal re-translation of his own,which is one of the most amusing features in the volume. As an example: the strangers remark,I dont see no pints about that… … MANY EVENINGS AT HUMK HE GAVE TO SUSY AND CLAKA. (SEE NEXT PAGE.) is nt grammar gone to seed, then I count myselfno Judge. .Sketches New and Old went very well, butthe book had no such sale as The Adventures ofTom Sawyer, which appeared a year later (De-cember, 1876). From the date of its issue it…

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