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The Invalid's Story Summary & Study Guide Description
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The Invalid's Story Plot Summary
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At the beginning of Twain's "The Invalid's Story," the narrator explains that he looks and feels older than he is and that he used to be much healthier than he is now. He attributes his decline in health to the strange events of one winter night, in which he traveled with a box of guns for two hundred miles.
The narrator recalls how, two years before, he had arrived at his home in Cleveland, Ohio and learned of the recent death of his friend, John B. Hackett. Following Hackett's last wishes, the narrator leaves for the train station to take Hackett's body back to his parents in Bethlehem, Wisconsin.
The narrator finds a white-pine box at the train station that matches the description of the coffin. He attaches the address card from Hackett's father, Deacon Levi Hackett, to the white-pine box, and has it loaded into the train...
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