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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 CAESAR "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 OF 'CAMPTOWN
RACES'" " 38

"I HAVE READ THIS ABSURD ITEM
OVER" " 50

"A LONG CADAVEROUS CREATURE" " 58

"THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE
POCKETS" " 82

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