# The Boys' Life of Mark Twain

THE BOYS' LIFE OF
Mark Twain
THE STORY OF A MAN WHO
MADE THE WORLD LAUGH AND LOVE HIM
BY
Albert Bigelow Paine
author of
Mark Twain: A Biography
WITH MANY ANECDOTES
LETTERS, ILLUSTRATIONS, ETC.
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON
Boys' Life of Mark Twain
Copyright, 1915, 1916, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published September, 1916
A–R
CONTENTS :
| CHAP. | | PAGE |
| Preface | | ix |
| I. | The Family of John Clemens | 1 |
| II. | The New Home, and Uncle John Quarles's Farm | 7 |
| III. | School | 12 |
| IV. | Education Out of School | 16 |
| V. | Tom Sawyer and His Band | 24 |
| VI. | Closing School-days | 36 |
| VII. | The Apprentice | 42 |
| VIII. | Orion's Paper | 47 |
| IX. | The Open Road | 52 |
| X. | A Wind of Chance | 60 |
| XI. | The Long Way to the Amazon | 66 |
| XII. | Renewing an Old Ambition | 70 |
| XIII. | Learning the River | 75 |
| XIV. | River Days | 82 |
| XV. | The Wreck of the "Pennsylvania" | 91 |
| XVI. | The Pilot | 94 |
| XVII. | The End of Piloting | 100 |
| XVIII. | The Soldier | 103 |
| XIX. | The Pioneer | 108 |
| XX. | The Miner | 112 |
| XXI. | The Territorial Enterprise | 124 |
| XXII. | "Mark Twain" | 129 |
| XXIII. | Artemus Ward and Literary San Francisco | 134 ​ |
| XXIV. | The Discovery of "The Jumping Frog" | 141 |
| XXV. | Hawaii and Anson Burlingame | 148 |
| XXVI. | Mark Twain, Lecturer | 153 |
| XXVII. | An Innocent Abroad, and Home Again | 163 |
| XXVIII. | Olivia Langdon. Work on the "Innocents" | 169 |
| XXIX. | The Visit to Elmira and its Consequences | 173 |
| XXX. | The New Book and a Wedding | 178 |
| XXXI. | Mark Twain in Buffalo | 182 |
| XXXII. | At Work on "Roughing It" | 186 |
| XXXIII. | In England | 189 |
| XXXIV. | A New Book and New English Triumphs | 192 |
| XXXV. | Beginning "Tom Sawyer" | 198 |
| XXXVI. | The New Home | 202 |
| XXXVII. | "Old Times," "Sketches," and "Tom Sawyer" | 205 |
| XXXVIII. | Home Pictures | 209 |
| XXXIX. | Tramping Abroad | 212 |
| XL. | "The Prince and the Pauper" | 219 |
| XLI. | General Grant at Hartford | 222 |
| XLII. | Many Investments | 225 |
| XLIII. | Back to the River, with Bixby | 229 |
| XLIV. | A Reading-tour with Cable | 232 |
| XLV. | "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" | 236 |
| XLVI. | Publisher to General Grant | 239 |
| XLVII. | The High-tide of Fortune | 243 |
| XLVIII. | Business Difficulties. Pleasanter Things | 246 |
| XLIX. | Kipling at Elmira. Elsie Leslie. The "Yankee" | 256 |
| L. | The Machine. Good-by to Hartford. "Joan" Is Begun | 261 |
| LI. | The Failure of Webster & Co. Around the World. Sorrow | 271 |
| LII. | European Economies. | 280 ​ |
| LIII. | Mark Twain Pays His Debts | 284 |
| LIV. | Return After Exile | 288 |
| LV. | A Prophet at Home | 291 |
| LVI. | Honored by Missouri | 295 |
| LVII. | The Close of a Beautiful Life | 299 |
| LVIII. | Mark Twain at Seventy | 303 |
| LIX. | Mark Twain Arranges for His Biography | 310 |
| LX. | Working with Mark Twain | 316 |
| LXI. | Dictations at Dublin, N. H. | 321 |
| LXII. | A New Era of Billiards | 325 |
| LXIII. | Living with Mark Twain | 329 |
| LXIV. | A Degree from Oxford | 332 |
| LXV. | The Removal to Redding | 335 |
| LXVI. | Life at Stormfield | 339 |
| LXVII. | The Death of Jean | 343 |
| LXVIII. | Days in Bermuda | 345 |
| LXIX. | The Return to Redding | 349 |
| LXX. | The Close of a Great Life | 352 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
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