Mark Twain's (burlesque) AutobiographyOrmeril, 1910 - 12 Seiten |
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Admiral advantage alias ancestor ancestry anchor ancient ashore baggage Beau beauti board the ship BOOK born branch brought called CAXTON BUILDING CLEVELAND century CHARGE close clothes Columbus COMPANY THE CAXTON conspicuous contract couple died dying day easily elevating enjoyed fact FAMILY TREE felt fired gallows gave gazed GEORGE going grow hand hanged HARVARD head heart Higgins honor hundred idleness Indians Jack jail JOHN jump Land LIBRARY lived MARK TWAIN'S BURLESQUE mention missed mission missionary MONKS narrative never newspaper noble occurred ORMERIL COMPANY owners parties passenger poor prophecies record removed returned RICHARD satisfaction saying seventeen seventeenth round ship's sixteen soldier Spirit stir stone stopped story-book stuck tender thing took TREE THE ORMERIL trunk TWAIN vague Vessels voyage watch WILLIAM write an autobiography
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Seite 7 - by the stern," he would suggest to Columbus to detail some men to "shift that baggage." In storms he had to be gagged, because his wailings about his "trunk" made it impossible for the men to hear the orders. The man does not appear to have been openly charged with any gravely unbecoming thing, but it is noted in the ship's log as a "curious circumstance" that albeit he brought his baggage on board the ship in a newspaper, he took it ashore in four trunks, a queensware crate, and a couple of champagne...
Seite 12 - The reader of this little pamphlet will see that it is only of his ancestors that Mark Twain writes. "My own history," he says, "would really seem so tame contrasted with that of my ancestors, that it is simply wisdom to leave it unwritten until I am hanged." As Mr. Clemens has written his autobiography, and as, according to latest accounts, he is still unhanged, he apparently has changed his mind — a feat for which we should all be profoundly thankful. As an autobiographer, Mark is simply immense....
Seite 12 - Kydd ; and then there are George Francis Train, Tom Pepper, Nebuchadnezzar and Baalam's Ass — they all belong to our family, but to a branch of it somewhat distantly removed from the honorable direct line — in fact, a collateral branch, whose members chiefly differ from the ancient stock in that, in order to acquire the notoriety we have always yearned and hungered for, they have got into a low way of going to jail instead of getting hanged. It is not well, when writing an autobiography, to follow...