The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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felt that way. This very day I saw the signs in the air of the coming  
dullness, and I said to myself, "How glad I am that I have already  
chartered a steamship!" There was absolutely nothing in the morning  
papers. You can see for yourself what the telegraphic headings were:  
BY TELEGRAPH  
A Father Killed by His Son  
A Bloody Fight in Kentucky  
A Court House Fired, and  
Negroes Therein Shot  
while Escaping  
A Louisiana Massacre  
An Eight-year-old murderer  
Two to Three Hundred Men Roasted Alive!  
A Town in a State of General Riot  
A Lively Skirmish in Indiana  
(and thirty other similar headings.)  
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