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Bret Harte 190
(1836 – 1920)
Tennessee's Partner 191
George Washington Cable 197
(1844 – 1925)
Belles Demoiselles Plantation 199
Charles Waddell Chesnutt 211
(1858 – 1932)
The Goophered Grapevine 212
Joel Chandler Harris 220
(1848 – 1908)
How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox 221
Free Joe and the Rest of the World 222
Mark Twain 231
(1835 – 1910)
The Dandy Frightening the Squatter 233
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 234
From Old Time on the Mississippi
[A Boy Wants to Be a Pilot] 238
A "Cub" Pilot's Experience; or, Learning the River 244
The Continued Perplexities of "Cub" Piloting 252
Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech 260
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 264
How to Tell a Story 448
From Letters from the Earth
Letter III 451
Letter IV 452