Roughing It - The Original Classic Edition. Twain Mark

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СКАЧАТЬ Mono Lake--Shampooing Made Easy--Thoughtless Act of Our Dog and the Results--Lye Water--Curiosities of the Lake--Free Hotel--Some Funny Incidents a Little Overdrawn

       CHAPTER XXXIX.

       Visit to the Islands in Lake Mono--Ashes and Desolation--Life Amid Death Our Boat Adrift--A Jump For Life--A Storm On the Lake--A Mass of Soap Suds--Geological Curiosities--A Week On the Sierras--A Narrow Escape From a Funny Explosion--"Stove Heap Gone"

       CHAPTER XL.

       The "Wide West" Mine--It is "Interviewed" by Higbie--A Blind Lead--Worth a Million--We are Rich At Last--Plans for the Future

       CHAPTER XLI.

       A Rheumatic Patient--Day Dreams--An Unfortunate Stumble--I Leave

       Suddenly--Another Patient--Higbie in the Cabin--Our Balloon Bursted

       --Worth Nothing--Regrets and Explanations--Our Third Partner

       CHAPTER XLII.

       What to do Next?--Obstacles I Had Met With--"Jack of All Trades"--Mining

       Again--Target Shooting--I Turn City Editor--I Succeed Finely

       CHAPTER XLIII.

       My Friend Boggs--The School Report--Boggs Pays Me An Old Debt--Virginia

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       City

       CHAPTER XLIV.

       Flush Times--Plenty of Stock--Editorial Puffing--Stocks Given Me--Salting

       Mines--A Tragedian In a New Role

       CHAPTER XLV.

       Flush Times Continue--Sanitary Commission Fund--Wild Enthusiasm of the

       People--Would not wait to Contribute--The Sanitary Flour Sack--It is Carried to Gold Hill and Dayton--Final Reception in Virginia--Results of the Sale--A Grand Total

       CHAPTER XLVI.

       The Nabobs of Those Days--John Smith as a Traveler--Sudden Wealth--A

       Sixty-Thousand-Dollar Horse--A Smart Telegraph Operator--A Nabob in New

       York City--Charters an Omnibus--"Walk in, It's All Free"--"You Can't Pay a Cent"--"Hold On, Driver, I Weaken"--Sociability of New Yorkers

       CHAPTER XLVII.

       Buck Fanshaw's Death--The Cause Thereof--Preparations for His Burial

       --Scotty Briggs the Committee Man--He Visits the Minister--Scotty Can't Play His Hand--The Minister Gets Mixed--Both Begin to See--"All Down Again But Nine"--Buck Fanshaw as a Citizen--How To "Shook Your Mother"

       --The Funeral--Scotty Briggs as a Sunday School Teacher

       CHAPTER XLVIII.

       The First Twenty-Six Graves in Nevada--The Prominent Men of the County

       --The Man Who Had Killed His Dozen--Trial by Jury--Specimen Jurors--A Private Grave Yard--The Desperadoes--Who They Killed--Waking up the Weary

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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 СКАЧАТЬ