Humorous Stories and Sketches
Mark Twain
1996
Journalism in Tennessee
I found this story much more humorous than The Jumping Frog. Here are the best lines about the assistant editor nearly losing his life on the first day of the job:
"The shot spoiled Smith's aim, who was just taking a second chance, and he crippled a stranger. It was me" (Twain, 8).
"The Colonel's bullet ended its career in the fleshy part of my thigh" (Twain, 10).
"The Southern heart is too impulsive - Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger" (Twain, 12).
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