Sketches New and Old

Contents

• Preface

1. My Watch
2. Political Economy
3. The Jumping Frog
4. Journalism in Tennessee
5. The Story of the Bad Little Boy
6. The Story of the Good Little Boy
7. A Couple of Poems by Twain and Moore
8. Niagara
9. Answers to Correspondents
10. To Raise Poultry
11. Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup
12. My First Literary Venture
13. How the Author Was Sold In Newark
14. The Office Bore
15. Johnny Greer
16. The Facts In The Case Of the Great Beef Contract
17. The Case of George Fisher
18. Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
19. The Judges "Spirited Woman"
20. Information Wanted
21. Some Learned Fables, For Good Old Boys and Girls
22. My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
23. A Fashion Item
24. Riley-Newspaper Correspondent
25. A Fine Old Man
26. Science vs. Luck
27. The Late Benjamin Franklin
28. Mr. Bloke's Item
29. A Medieval Romance
30. Petition Concerning Copyright
31. After-Dinner Speech
32. Lionizing Murderers
33. A New Crime
34. A Curious Dream
35. A True Story
36. The Siamese Twins
37. Speech at the Scottish Banquet in London
38. A Ghost Story
39. The Capitoline Venus
40. Speech on Accident Insurance
41. John Chinaman in New York
42. How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
43. The Petrified Man
44. My Bloody Massacre
45. The Undertaker's Chat
46. Concerning Chambermaids
47. Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man
48. "After" Jenkins
49. About Barbers
50. "Party Cries" In Ireland
51. The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation
52. History Repeats Itself
53. Honored As a Curiosity
54. First Interview with Artemus Ward
55. Cannibalism in the Cars
56. The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
57. The Widow's Protest
58. The Scriptural Panoramist
59. Curing a Cold
60. A Curious Pleasure Excursion
61. Running For Governor
62. A Mysterious Visit