Produced by Suzan Flanagan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries) Editorial Wild Oats BY Mark Twain ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS--MCMV Copyright, 1875, 1899, 1903, by SAMUEL L. CLEMENS. Copyright, 1879, 1899, by SAMUEL L. CLEMENS. Copyright, 1905, by HARPER & BROTHERS. _All rights reserved._ Published September, 1905. [Illustration: See p. 57 "I FANCIED HE WAS DISPLEASED"] Contents PAGE MY FIRST LITERARY VENTURE 3 JOURNALISM IN TENNESSEE 11 NICODEMUS DODGE--PRINTER 30 MR. BLOKE'S ITEM 41 HOW I EDITED AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER 52 THE KILLING OF JULIUS CAESAR "LOCALIZED" 70 Illustrations "I FANCIED HE WAS DISPLEASED" _Frontispiece_ "HE HAD CONCLUDED HE WOULDN'T" _Facing p._ 4 "GILLESPIE HAD CALLED" " 24 "WHEEZING THE MUSIC OF 'CAMPTOWN RACES'" " 38 "I HAVE READ THIS ABSURD ITEM OVER" " 50 "A LONG CADAVEROUS CREATURE" " 58 "THERE WAS NOTHING IN THE POCKETS" " 82 +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's Note: The dialect in this book is transcribed exactly as| |in the original. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Editorial Wild Oats My First Literary Venture