Mark Twain - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (1867 edition)

Dedication
By Mark Twain

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TO

John Smith

WHOM I HAVE KNOWN IN DIVERS AND SUNDRY PLACES ABOUT THE WORLD, AND WHOSE MANY AND MANIFOLD VIRTUES DID ALWAYS COMMAND MY ESTEEM, I

Dedicate this Book.

It is said that the man to whom a volume is dedicated, always buys a copy. If this prove true in the present instance, a princely affluence is about to burst upon
THE AUTHOR.

Contents:

• Dedication
• Advertisement
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
• Aurelia's Unfortunate Young Man
• A Complaint about Correspondents, Dated in San Francisco
• Answers to Correspondents
• Among the Fenians
• The Story of the Bad Little Boy Who Didn't Come to Grief
• Curing a Cold
• An Inquiry about Insurances
• Literature in the Dry Diggings
• "After" Jenkins
• Lucretia Smith's Soldier
• The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
• An Item which the Editor Himself could not Understand
• Among the Spirits
• Brief Biographical Sketch of George Washington
• A Touching Story of George Washington's Boyhood
• A Page from a Californian Almanac
• Information for the Million
• The Launch of the Steamer Capital
• Origin of Illustrious Men
• Advice for Good Little Girls
• Concerning Chambermaids
• Remarkable Instances of Presence of Mind
• Honored as a Curiosity in Honolulu
• The Steed "Oahu"
• A Strange Dream
• Short and Singular Rations