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sketches by mark twain.

never have forgotten since, that we never read the dull explanatory surroundings of marvellously exciting things when we have no occasion to suppose some irresponsible scribbler is trying to defraud us; we skip all that, and hasten to revel in the blood-curdling particulars and be happy.