 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.  An Anatomy of Humor - Page 146by Arthur Asa Berger - 192 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - Frontier and pioneer life - 1884 - 496 pages
...LONDON : PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE AND PARLIAMENT STREET X NOTICE. PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will...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
...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 will...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 - Adventure stories - 1896 - 462 pages
...LIBRARY f • ./ivi j LIBRARY \»:<- *• '. 'i Copyright, 1884, by SAMUEL L. CLEMENS. NOTICE PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will...a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, PER GG, CHIEF OF ORDNANCE. EXPLANATORY IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit : the Missouri... | |
 | Mark Twain - American fiction - 1899 - 398 pages
...SAMUEL L. Ci EMHSS Copyright, 1896 and 1899, by HARPER & BROTHB (,AU rights reserved) NOTICE PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will...a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per GG, Chief of Ordnance. (SO EXPLANATORY IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the... | |
 | Mark Twain - American literature - 1899 - 400 pages
...reserved) Printed from new, specially made plates owned by Harper & Brothers iplimpton press NOTICE PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will...a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per GG, Chief of Ordnance. (iii) CO X EXPLANATORY IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit:... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Mark Twain - American literature - 1900 - 356 pages
...your countrymen, I warn you that your world-wide fame for humor will be exploded." NOTICE. Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will...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 - 1899 - 343 pages
...this narrative will be prosecuted; 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 THB AUTHOR PER GG, CHIEF OF ORDNANCE. The kernel is the same in both prefaces, you see — the public... | |
 | Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - Christian Science - 1899 - 404 pages
...Copyright, 1884, by SAMUEL L. CLEMENS Copyright, 1896 and 1899, by HARPER & HKOTHEKS NOTICE PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narrative will...a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per GG, Chief of Ordnance. EXPLANATORY IN this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri... | |
 | Mark Twain - American essays - 1906 - 358 pages
...your countrymen, I warn you that your world-wide fame for humor will be exploded." NOTICE. Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will...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.... | |
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