Life on the Mississippi, Part 12.
Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi, Part 12.
Mark Twain · English
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 12.
Mark Twain · English
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Chapter 56 A Question of Law THE slaughter-house is gone from the mouth of Bear Creek and so is the small jail (or 'calaboose') which once stood in its neighborhood. A citizen asked, 'Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard, was burned to death in the calaboose?' Observe, now, how history becomes defiled, through lapse of time and the help of the bad memories of men. Jimmy Finn was not burned in the calaboose, but died a natural death in a tan vat, of a combination
Life on the Mississippi, Part 12.
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