Copyright, 1884, by SAMUEL L. CLEMENS

Copyright, 1896 and 1899, by HARPER & BROTHERS

(All rights reserved)

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NOTICE

PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR,

Per G. G., Chief of Ordnance.

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