[DOC] [TLE] Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses - Mark Twain in His Times [PAR] One of the very greatest characters in fiction, Natty Bumppo. .... Every time a 
Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he 
is... [DOC] [TLE] Mark Twain's Rules for Good Writing | Interesting Literature [PAR] Oct 2, 2015 ... Mark Twain's 18 rules for writing - part of his response to the fiction of James 
Fenimore Cooper Mark Twain (1835-1910) is the writer who once observed, 'The 
difference between the ... Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute 
silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. [DOC] [TLE] Friday, July 31 | English 207: American Literature [PAR] Jul 30, 2015 ... Discuss Twain's criticisms of James Fenimore Cooper. ... Twain values clarity of 
writing, well-drawn characters, lean writing (meaning an ... Personally, I liked 
The Last of the Mohicans so I felt the need to deny an assault against him. ... 
silence is worth for dollar a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. [DOC] [TLE] James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain - Cooper, Twain, Twigs [PAR] On this day in 1841 James Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer was published. 
This was the last-written of the five Leatherstocking novels, though it covers the ... 
peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a 
dry twig. ... Cooper requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if he can't do it
,... [DOC] [TLE] The Leatherstocking Tales (Literature) - TV Tropes [PAR] The book series by James Fenimore Cooper. ... comic relief roles, Cooper made 
commoners like Natty Bumppo central characters of the work they appeared in. [DOC] [TLE] h2g2 - Writing Right with Dmitri: When in the Woods... [PAR] Sep 9, 2011 ... You've got characters and a point of view. ... James Fenimore Cooper (1789-
1851) was a prolific writer of tales about the colonial American frontier. ... Twain 
objected to the adulation heaped upon Cooper's works. ... absolute silence is 
worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. ... Written by. [DOC] [TLE] Mark Twain on James Fenimore Cooper and parallels with golf ... [PAR] Oct 5, 2006 ... It's in a piece he wrote called Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses. ... Every time 
a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars ... Note: A 
thousand dollars given modern currency] he is sure to step on a dry twig. ... 
Almost every Twain novel has some version of characters getting into... [DOC] [TLE] The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford: April 2011 [PAR] Apr 29, 2011 ... Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars 
a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. ... We can't wait to see what James 
Fenimore Cooper scholar Dr. Wayne ... Mark Twain lived during the time he 
created his most famous characters, Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. [DOC] [TLE] Mark Twain vs. James Fenimore Cooper - The Mark Twain House ... [PAR] Apr 29, 2011 ... Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars 
a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. ... Cooper requires him to turn out and 
find a dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one. ... no stir, no seeming of 
reality; its characters are confusedly drawn, and by their acts and... [DOC] [TLE] A Literary Odyssey: Book 54: On Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses. [PAR] Sep 3, 2010 ... The essay is called "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" and it is ... Cooper is to 
Twain what Dickens is to me (perhaps I need to write ... silence is worth four 
dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. ... it is written by

Question: Twain wrote that a James Fenimore Cooper character who needs absolute silence "is sure to step on a dry" this
Answer: a twig