Roughing It - The Original Classic Edition. Twain Mark

Roughing It - The Original Classic Edition - Twain Mark


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       Passenger--Satisfaction Without Fighting

       CHAPTER XLIX.

       Fatal Shooting Affray--Robbery and Desperate Affray--A Specimen City

       Official--A Marked Man--A Street Fight--Punishment of Crime

       CHAPTER L.

       Captain Ned Blakely--Bill Nookes Receives Desired Information--Killing of Blakely's Mate--A Walking Battery--Blakely Secures Nookes--Hang First and Be Tried Afterwards--Captain Blakely as a Chaplain--The First Chapter of Genesis Read at a Hanging--Nookes Hung--Blakely's Regrets

       CHAPTER LI.

       The Weekly Occidental--A Ready Editor--A Novel--A Concentration of

       Talent--The Heroes and the Heroines--The Dissolute Author Engaged

       --Extraordinary Havoc With the Novel--A Highly Romantic Chapter--The Lovers Separated--Jonah Outdone--A Lost Poem--The Aged Pilot Man--Storm On the Erie Canal--Dollinger the Pilot Man--Terrific Gale--Danger Increases--A

       Crisis Arrived--Saved as if by a Miracle

       CHAPTER LII.

       Freights to California--Silver Bricks--Under Ground Mines--Timber

       Supports--A Visit to the Mines--The Caved Mines--Total of Shipments in

       1863

       CHAPTER LIII.

       Jim Blaine and his Grandfather's Ram--Filkin's Mistake--Old Miss Wagner and her Glass Eye--Jacobs, the Coffin Dealer--Waiting for a Customer--His Bargain With Old Robbins--Robbins Sues for Damage and Collects--A New Use

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       for Missionaries--The Effect--His Uncle Lem and the Use Providence Made

       of Him--Sad Fate of Wheeler--Devotion of His Wife--A Model Monument--What

       About the Ram?

       CHAPTER LIV.

       Chinese in Virginia City--Washing Bills--Habit of Imitation--Chinese

       Immigration--A Visit to Chinatown--Messrs. Ah Sing, Hong Wo, See Yup, &c.

       CHAPTER LV.

       Tired of Virginia City--An Old Schoolmate--A Two Years' Loan--Acting as

       an Editor--Almost Receive an Offer--An Accident--Three Drunken Anecdotes

       --Last Look at Mt. Davidson--A Beautiful Incident

       CHAPTER LVI.

       Off for San Francisco--Western and Eastern Landscapes--The Hottest place on Earth--Summer and Winter

       CHAPTER LVII.

       California--Novelty of Seeing a Woman--"Well if it ain't a Child!"--One

       Hundred and Fifty Dollars for a Kiss--Waiting for a turn

       CHAPTER LVIII.

       Life in San Francisco--Worthless Stocks--My First Earthquake--Reportorial Instincts--Effects of the Shocks--Incidents and Curiosities--Sabbath Breakers--The Lodger and the Chambermaid--A Sensible Fashion to Follow

       --Effects of the Earthquake on the Ministers

       CHAPTER LIX.

       Poor Again--Slinking as a Business--A Model Collector--Misery loves

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       Company--Comparing Notes for Comfort--A Streak of Luck--Finding a Dime

       --Wealthy by Comparison--Two Sumptuous Dinners

       CHAPTER LX.

       An Old Friend--An Educated Miner--Pocket Mining--Freaks of Fortune

       CHAPTER LXI.

       Dick Baker and his Cat--Tom Quartz's Peculiarities--On an Excursion

       --Appearance On His Return--A Prejudiced Cat--Empty Pockets and a Roving

       Life

       CHAPTER LXII.

       Bound for the Sandwich Islands--The Three Captains--The Old Admiral--His Daily Habits--His Well Fought Fields--An Unexpected Opponent--The Admiral Overpowered--The Victor Declared a Hero

       CHAPTER LXIII.

       Arrival at the Islands--Honolulu--What I Saw There--Dress and Habits of the Inhabitants--The Animal Kingdom--Fruits and Delightful Effects

       CHAPTER LXIV.

       An Excursion--Captain Phillips and his Turn-Out--A Horseback Ride--A Vicious Animal--Nature and Art--Interesting Ruins--All Praise to the Missionaries

       CHAPTER LXV.

       Interesting Mementoes and Relics--An Old Legend of a Frightful Leap--An Appreciative Horse--Horse Jockeys and Their Brothers--A New Trick--A Hay Merchant--Good Country for Horse Lovers

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       CHAPTER LXVI.

       A Saturday Afternoon--Sandwich Island Girls on a Frolic--The Poi

       Merchant--Grand Gala Day--A Native Dance--Church Membership--Cats and

       Officials--An Overwhelming Discovery

       CHAPTER LXVII.

       The Legislature of the Island--What Its President Has Seen--Praying for

       an Enemy--Women's Rights--Romantic Fashions--Worship of the Shark--Desire

       for Dress--Full Dress--Not Paris Style--Playing Empire--Officials and

       Foreign Ambassadors--Overwhelming Magnificence

       CHAPTER LXVIII.

       A Royal Funeral--Order of Procession--Pomp and Ceremony--A Striking

       Contrast--A Sick Monarch--Human Sacrifices at His Death--Burial Orgies

       CHAPTER LXIX.

       "Once more upon the Waters."--A Noisy Passenger--Several Silent Ones--A Moonlight Scene--Fruits and Plantations

       CHAPTER LXX.

       A Droll Character--Mrs. Beazely and Her Son--Meditations on Turnips--A Letter from Horace Greeley--An Indignant Rejoinder--The Letter Translated but too Late

       CHAPTER LXXI.

       Kealakekua Bay--Death of Captain Cook--His Monument--Its Construction--On

       Board the Schooner

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       CHAPTER LXXII.

       Young Kanakas in New England--A Temple Built by Ghosts--Female Bathers--I Stood Guard--Women and Whiskey--A Fight for Religion--Arrival of Missionaries

       CHAPTER LXXIII.

       Native Canoes--Surf Bathing--A Sanctuary--How Built--The Queen's Rock

       --Curiosities--Petrified Lava

       CHAPTER LXXIV.

       Visit to the Volcano--The Crater--Pillar of Fire--Magnificent Spectacle

       --A Lake of Fire

       CHAPTER LXXV.

       The North Lake--Fountains of Fire--Streams of Burning Lava--Tidal Waves

       CHAPTER LXXVI.

       A Reminiscence--Another Horse Story--My Ride with the Retired Milk Horse

       --A Picnicing Excursion--Dead Volcano of Holeakala--Comparison with

       Vesuvius--An Inside View

       CHAPTER LXXVII.

       A Curious Character--A Series of Stories--Sad Fate of a Liar--Evidence of

       Insanity

       CHAPTER LXXVIII.

       Return to San Francisco--Ship Amusements--Preparing for Lecturing

       --Valuable Assistance Secured--My First Attempt--The Audience Carried

       --"All's Well that Ends Well."

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       CHAPTER LXXIX.

       Highwaymen--A Predicament--A Huge Joke--Farewell to California--At Home

       Again--Great Changes. Moral.

      


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