Title: A Tramp Abroad
Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Release Date: June 19, 2004 [EBook #119]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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CHAPTER XLIII
[My Poor Sick Friend Disappointed]
Everybody was out-of-doors; everybody was in the
principal street of the village—­not on the
sidewalks, but all over the street; everybody wa...
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THE CAVE OF THE SPECTER
Two miles below Hornberg castle is a cave in a low
cliff, which the captain of the raft said had once
been occupied by a beautiful heiress of Hornberg—­the
Lady Gertr...
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CHAPTER I
[The Knighted Knave of Bergen]
One day it occurred to me that it had been many years
since the world had been afforded the spectacle of
a man adventurous enough to undertake a journey throug...
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CHAPTER XXXVI
[The Fiendish Fun of Alp-climbing]
We did not oversleep at St. Nicholas. The church-bell
began to ring at four-thirty in the morning, and from
the length of time it continued to r...
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CHAPTER IX
[What the Beautiful Maiden Said]
One day we took the train and went down to Mannheim
to see “King Lear” played in German.
It was a mistake. We sat in our seats thre...
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CHAPTER XXIX
[Looking West for Sunrise]
He kept his word. We heard his horn and instantly
got up. It was dark and cold and wretched.
As I fumbled around for the matches, knocking t...
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CHAPTER XXII
[The Black Forest and Its Treasures]
From Baden-Baden we made the customary trip into the
Black Forest. We were on foot most of the time.
One cannot describe those noble woo...
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A Tramp Abroad
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Samuel Langhorne Clemens