Moments with Mark TwainHarper, 1920 - 296 psl. |
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ain't asked beautiful Bedouins began Bethsaida Bixby boat breath Buck Canty Carson City cayote Christopher Colombo climb Constantinople Damascus dark dead earth eyes face feel feet GEMMI PASS gone Grangerford guns Gyptian hand head heard heart heaven Hendon horse hour Huck hundred imagine Is-is Joan of Arc Johnny Miller keep kill king learned living look man's MARK TWAIN matter mighty miles mind minute mummy never nigger night Old Master once pard passed pilot poor pretty reckon river sand seemed seen shape Shepherdsons shore side sleep smoke sort stand steamboat stood stranger stretched talk tell thing thou thought thousand tion Tom Canty took tree turned Venice wait Wandering Jew warn't watch wheel whitewash wonder young
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