SKETCHES NEW AND OLD BY MARK TWAIN HARTFORD, CONN. THE AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY H. G. Newbegin Company, New York Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by SAMUEL L. CLEMENS In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington Copyright 1899, by SAMUEL L. CLEMENS Hartford Press : THE CASE, LOCKWOOD & BRAINARD COMPANY HARTFORD, CONN., U. S. A. PREFACE I HAVE scattered through this volume a mass of matter which has never been in print before, (such as "Learned Fables for Good Old Boys and Girls," the "Jumping Frog restored to the English tongue after martyrdom in the French," the "Membranous Croup" sketch, and many others which I need not specify): not doing this in order to make an advertisement of it, but because these things seemed instructive. |