Subject for May, 2016
Chapter 4 – Sir Dinadan the Humorist
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
IT seemed to me that this quaint lie was most simply and beautifully told; but then I had heard it only once, and that makes a difference; it was pleasant to the others when it ...
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Chapter 3 – Knights of the Table Round
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
MAINLY the Round Table talk was monologues — narrative accounts of the adventures in which these prisoners were captured and their friends and backers killed and stripped ...
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Chapter 2 – King Arthur’s Court
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
THE moment I got a chance I slipped aside privately and touched an ancient common looking man on the shoulder and said, in an insinuating, confidential way: “Friend, do m...
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Chapter 1 – Camelot
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
“CAMELOT — Camelot,” said I to myself. “I don’t seem to remember hearing of it before. Name of the asylum, likely.” It was a soft, reposeful...
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Preface
Subject: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these la...
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Chapter 43
Subject: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
THE first time I catched Tom private I asked him what was his idea, time of the evasion? — what it was he’d planned to do if the evasion worked all right and he mana...
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Chapter 42
Subject: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
THE old man was uptown again before breakfast, but couldn’t get no track of Tom; and both of them set at the table thinking, and not saying nothing, and looking mournful, ...
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Chapter 41
Subject: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
THE doctor was an old man; a very nice, kind-looking old man when I got him up. I told him me and my brother was over on Spanish Island hunting yesterday afternoon, and camped o...
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Chapter 40
Subject: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
WE was feeling pretty good after breakfast, and took my canoe and went over the river a-fishing, with a lunch, and had a good time, and took a look at the raft and found her all...
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Chapter 39
Subject: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
IN the morning we went up to the village and bought a wire rat-trap and fetched it down, and unstopped the best rat-hole, and in about an hour we had fifteen of the bulliest kin...
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