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100 1 $aTwain, Mark $q(Mark Twain).
245 10 $aEditorial Wild Oats$h[electronic resource].
260 $aRockville :$bWildside Press LLC,$c2006.
500 $aTitle from eBook information screen.
520 $a I was a printer's "devil," and a progressive and aspiring one. My uncle had me on his paper (the Weekly Hannibal Journal, two dollars a year, in advance ́five hundred subscribers, and they paid in cord-wood, cabbages, and unmarketable turnips), and on a lucky summer's day he left town to be gone a week, and asked me if I thought I could edit one issue of the paper judiciously. Ah! didn't I want to try! Higgins was the editor on the rival paper. He had lately been jilted, and one night a friend found an open note on the poor fellow's bed, in which he stated that he could no longer endure life and had drowned himself in Bear Creek. The friend ran down there and discovered Higgins wading back to shore. He had concluded he wouldn't. The village was full of it for several days, but Higgins did not suspect it. I thought this was a fine opportunity. I wrote an elaborately wretched account of the whole matter, and then illustrated it with villanous cuts engraved on the bottoms of wooden type with a jack-knife ́one of them a picture of Higgins wading out into the creek in his shirt, with a lantern, sounding the depth of the water with a walking-stick. I thought it was desperately funny, and was densely unconscious that there was any moral obliquity about such a publication. Being satisfied with this effort, I looked around for other worlds to conquer, and it struck me that it would make good, interesting matter to charge the editor of a neighboring country paper with a piece of gratuitous rascality and "see him squirm."
533 $aElectronic reproduction.$bRockville :$cWildside Press LLC,$d2006.$nRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 330 KB).
538 $aRequires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 330 KB).
653 #0 $aHumor (Nonfiction)
653 #0 $aNonfiction
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