The short story by Mark Twain. It was his first great success as a writer and brought him national attention.
In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him: ‘If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road.’
In it, the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender, Simon Wheeler, at the Angels Hotel in Angels Camp, California, about the gambler Jim Smiley. The narrator describes him: ‘If he even seen a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to wherever he going to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road.’
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 13 ● ISBN 9780880037075 ● File size 0.3 MB ● Age 99-17 years ● Publisher Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing ● City Moscow ● Country RU ● Published 2022 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8428915 ● Copy protection Social DRM
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