Sketches New and Old, Part 2.

SKETCHES NEW AND OLD, Part 2
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SKETCHES NEW AND OLD
by Mark Twain
Part 2.
CONTENTS:
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
TO RAISE POULTRY EXPERIENCE OF THE MCWILLIAMSES WITH MEMBRANOUS CROUP MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE HOW THE AUTHOR WAS SOLD IN NEWARK THE OFFICE BORE JOHNNY GREER THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF THE GREAT BEEF CONTRACT THE CASE OF GEORGE FISHER
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
[written about 1865]
"MORAL STATISTICIAN."—I don't want any of your statistics; I took your whole batch and lit my pipe with it. I hate your kind of people. You are always ciphering out how much a man's health is injured, and how much his intellect is impaired, and how many pitiful dollars and cents he wastes in the course of ninety-two years' indulgence in the fatal practice of smoking; and in the equally
fatal practice of drinking coffee; and in playing billiards occasionally; and in taking a ...