Gilded Age, The; a tale of today

Gilded Age, The; a tale of today
by Mark Twain

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The elders of the party were not long in discovering the fact, which almost all travelers to the west soon find out; that the water was poor. It must have been by a lucky premonition of this that they all had brandy flasks with which to qualify the water of the country; and it was no doubt from an uneasy feeling of the danger of being poisoned that they kept experimenting, mixing a little of the dangerous and changing fluid, as they passed along.

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The elders of the party were not long in discovering the fact, which almost all travelers to the west soon find out; that the water was poor. It must have been by a lucky premonition of this that they all had brandy flasks with which to qualify the water of the country; and it was no doubt from an uneasy feeling of the danger of being poisoned that they kept experimenting, mixing a little of the dangerous and changing fluid, as they passed along.

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Mark Twain (1835-1910), satirist, novelist and keen observer of the American scene, is one of America's best-loved writers.

Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) was the author of many essays, including the collection My Summer Garden (1871).

Louis J. Budd is James B. Duke Professor of English (emeritus) at Duke University and founding president of the Mark Twain Circle of America and has written several studies of Mark Twain and American literature.

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