The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches - Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and
Other Sketches

By Mark Twain

New York: C. H. Webb, 1867
BoondocksNet Edition, 2001

Contents

- Dedication

- Advertisement

- The
Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

- Aurelia's
Unfortunate Young Man

- A
Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco

- Answers to Correspondents

- Among the Fenians

- The
Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief

- Curing a Cold

- An
Inquiry about Insurances

- Literature in the Dry Diggings

- "After"
Jenkins

- Lucretia
Smith's Soldier

- The
Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"

- An Item which the Editor Himself could not Understand

- Among the Spirits

- Brief
Biographical Sketch of George Washington

- A
Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood

- A
Page from a Californian Almanac

- Information for the Million

- The
Launch of the Steamer Capital

- Origin of Illustrious Men

- Advice for Good Little Girls

- Concerning
Chambermaids

- Remarkable
Instances of Presence of Mind

- Honored as a Curiosity in Honolulu

- The
Steed "Oahu"

- A
Strange Dream

- Short and Singular Rations

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Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (New York: C. H. Webb, 1867;
BoondocksNet Edition, 2001).
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