Punch, Brothers, Punch: The Comic Mark Twain Reader Book

	Introduction	xv
	Stories
	The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County	1
	Journalism in Tennessee	7
	The Facts in the Great Beef Contract	13
	How I Edited an Agricultural Paper	20
	Experience of the McWilliamses with Membranous Croup	26
	The Invalid's Story	33
	The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm	40
	Playing Courier	47
	Speeches
	The Fourth of July	61
	Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims	64
	Woman, God Bless Her!	69
	From The Innocents Abroad (1869)
	Glove Purchase in Gibraltar	72
	Parisian Shave	75
	Billfinger	77
	Guide-English	82
	Shortage of Soap	85
	A Sort of People	88
	A Skinning	90
	An Ancient Playbill	95
	Guying the Guides	101
	Turkish Bath	107
	That Girl in Yalta	111
	"Jericho"	113
	A Party of Eight	115
	King Solomon-in-all-his-glory	117
	A Fearless Man	120
	The Benton House	125
	The Great Pyramid of Cheops	128
	Cookery Complaints	133
	A Newspaper Valedictory	134
	From Roughing It (1872)
	The Cayote	140
	When the Buffalo Climbed a Tree	143
	A Hundred and Ten Tin Whistles	148
	A Genuine Mexican Plug	153
	Mr. Arkansas	158
	The Great Landslide Case	162
	Buck Fanshaw's Funeral	167
	The Story of the Old Ram	175
	Fetch Her Out!	180
	Tom Quartz	182
	"Blanketing" the Admiral	185
	The Greeley Correspondence with Erickson	193
	Markiss, King of Liars	200
	A Practical Joke	205
	From A Tramp Abroad (1880)
	Jim Baker's Bluejay Yarn	209
	The Great French Duel	214
	Cholley Adams	223
	The Laborious Ant	227
	Nicodemus Dodge	231
	An American Party	235
	American in Europe	244
	Ascending the Riffelberg	252
	The Awful German Language	277
	From Life on the Mississippi (1883)
	Keelboat Talk and Manners	295
	An Incognito Exploded	307
	The House Beautiful	312
	Manufactures	317
	The Art of Inhumation	320
	From Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
	Pap, His Own Self	324
	The Duke and the Dauphin	335
	Sketches and Tales
	Curing a Cold	340
	Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man	344
	The Facts in the Case of the Senate Doorkeeper	347
	Female Suffrage	352
	The Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation	365
	My Late Senatorial Secretaryship	372
	Private Habits of Horace Greeley	378
	Last Words of Great Men	382
	A Mystery Cleared Up	386
	The Late Benjamin Franklin	388
	The Reception at the President's	391
	The Widow's Protest	396
	About Barbers	397
	A Burlesque Biography	401
	An Encounter with an Interviewer	407
	The Frog Jumping of the County of Calaveras	412
	Punch, Brothers, Punch	418
	Remarkable Gold Mines	423
	A Petition to the Queen of England	425
	A Cure for the Blues	430
	Traveling with a Reformer	447
	Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses	461
	My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It	473
	Amended Obituaries	481
	Sources	485
	Index of Titles	487