Extracts from Adam's diary / by Mark Twain
| dc.contributor | Internet Wiretap |
| dc.contributor.author | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:57:57Z |
| dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:57:57Z |
| dc.date.created | 1904 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-05-12 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1859 |
| dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1859 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1859 |
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| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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| dc.subject.lcsh | Fiction -- United States -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Biographical fiction -- United States -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Comic histories -- United States -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.other | Short stories |
| dc.title | Extracts from Adam's diary / by Mark Twain |
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| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY by MARK TWAIN
From "The Writings of Mark Twain Volume XX",
Copyright 1903, Samuel Clemens.
This text is placed in the Public Domain, May 1993.
MONDAY. -- This new creature with the long hair
is a good deal in the way. It is always hang-
ing around and following me about. I don't like
this; I am not used to company. I wish it would
stay with the other animals.... Cloudy to-day,
wind in the east; think we shall have rain.
WE? Where did I get that word? -- I remember
now -- the new creature uses it.
TUESDAY. -- Been examining the great waterfall.
It is the finest thing on the estate, I think. The
new creature calls it Niagara Falls -- why, I am sure
I do not know. Says it LOOKS like Niagara Falls.
That is not a reason, it is mere waywardness and
imbecility. I get no chance to name anything my-
self. The new creature names everything that comes
along, before I can get in a protest. And always
that same pretext is offered -- it lo . . .
