Roughing It by Mark Twain (large screen ebook reader .txt) đ
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When Orion Clemens is appointed Secretary of the Nevada Territory, his brother Samuel Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, joins him on his journey west. Together with their all-important six pounds of Unabridged Dictionary they make their way to Nevada in a six-horsed mail coach and are, of course, derailed by all sorts of problems.
In Roughing It Twain combines the beautiful descriptions of the Westâs idyllic landscape with his now-patented sense of humor. He joins the silver and gold mining scramble, begins his career as a writer working for different newspapers and journals, visits the Mormons of Salt Lake City, and even makes his way to Hawaii, then still known as the Sandwich Islands.
Roughing It was written as a prequel to his earlier travelogue The Innocents Abroad.
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Jim Blaine had been growing gradually drowsy and drowsierâ âhis head nodded, once, twice, three timesâ âdropped peacefully upon his breast, and he fell tranquilly asleep. The tears were running down the boysâ cheeksâ âthey were suffocating with suppressed laughterâ âand had been from the start, though I had never noticed it. I perceived that I was âsold.â I learned then that Jim Blaineâs peculiarity was that whenever he reached a certain stage of intoxication, no human power could keep him from setting out, with impressive unction, to tell about a wonderful adventure which he had once had with his grandfatherâs old ramâ âand the mention of the ram in the first sentence was as far as any man had ever heard him get, concerning it. He always maundered off, interminably, from one thing to another, till his whisky got the best of him and he fell asleep. What the thing was that happened to him and his grandfatherâs old ram is a dark mystery to this day, for nobody has ever yet found out.
LIVOf course there was a large Chinese population in Virginiaâ âit is the case with every town and city on the Pacific coast. They are a harmless race when white men either let them alone or treat them no worse than dogs; in fact they are almost entirely harmless anyhow, for they seldom think of resenting the vilest insults or the cruelest injuries. They are quiet, peaceable, tractable, free from drunkenness, and they are as industrious as the day is long. A disorderly Chinaman is rare, and a lazy one does not exist. So long as a Chinaman has strength to use his hands he needs no support from anybody; white men often complain of want of work, but a Chinaman offers no such complaint; he always manages to find something to do. He is a great convenience to everybodyâ âeven to the worst class of white men, for he bears the most of their sins, suffering fines for their petty thefts, imprisonment for their robberies, and death for their murders. Any white man can swear a Chinamanâs life away in the courts, but no Chinaman can testify against a white man. Ours is the âland of the freeââ ânobody denies thatâ ânobody challenges it. [Maybe it is because we wonât let other people testify.] As
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