 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.  The Writings of Mark Twain - Page iiiby Mark Twain - 1912Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - 1884 - 496 pages
...1884 r.-r , r , ^^ LONDON : PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET X NOTICE. PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this...persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BV ORDER OF THE AUTHOR PER GG, CHIEF OF ORDNANCE. EXPLANATOBY. IN this book a number of dialects are... | |
 | 1885 - 248 pages
...This is rather sweeping, but one is reminded of the prefatory note to Mark Twain's latest book : " Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative...persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." The frontispiece of Parton's "Humorous Poetry" contains seven portraits of the princes of humor. The... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1899 - 398 pages
...Copyright, 1884, by SAMUEL L. Ci EMHSS Copyright, 1896 and 1899, by HARPER & BROTHB (,AU rights reserved) NOTICE PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this...BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per GG, Chief of Ordnance. (SO EXPLANATORY IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1899 - 358 pages
...this narrative wfll be pro* ecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; pelsons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR PER GG, CHIEF OF ORDNANCE. The kernel is the same in both prefaces, you see — the public must not take us too seriously. If... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1900 - 356 pages
...your country and of your countrymen, I warn you that your world-wide fame for humor will be exploded." NOTICE. Persons attempting to find a motive in this...attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; peisons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR PER GG, CHIEF OF ORDNANCE.... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1906 - 358 pages
...your country and of your countrymen, I warn you that your world-wide fame for humor will be exploded." NOTICE. Persons attempting to find a motive in this...attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; pelsons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR PER GG, CHIEF OF ORDNANCE.... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1912 - 436 pages
...'A' BEEN SPERITS" 383 XLII. WHY THEY DIDN'T HANG JIM 392 CHAPTER THE LAST. NOTHING MORE TO WRITE 403 NOTICE PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this...attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OP THE AUTHOR, Per GG, Chief of Ordnance. EXPLANATORY IN this book a number of dialects are used, to... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1912 - 444 pages
...DOGS A-COMING" " I6g "GniMH A CHAW'" <« I94 THE Accnoisr •« 270 Ton ADVISES A WITCH PIE » 346 NOTICE PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this...moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to fad a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per GG, Chief of Ordnance. EXPLANATORY IN this... | |
 | Van Wyck Brooks - 1920 - 290 pages
...introductory note to the book: "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosejcuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished;...persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot." He feels so secure of himself that he can actually challenge the censor to accuse him of having a motive!... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1918 - 422 pages
...cunning thing myself in earlier days. I did it in a prefatory note to a book of mine called Tom Sawyer. NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this...attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER or THE AUTHOR, PER GG, CHIEF OF ORDNANCE. The kernel is the same in both prefaces, you see — the... | |
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