A Tramp Abroad

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A TRAMP ABROAD BY MARK TWAIN

By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 Illustrations taken from an 1880 First Edition

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I [The Knighted Knave of Bergen]

CHAPTER II Heidelberg [Landing a Monarch at Heidelberg]

CHAPTER III Baker's Bluejay Yarn [What Stumped the Blue Jays]

CHAPTER IV Student Life [The Laborious Beer King]

CHAPTER V At the Students' Dueling-Ground [Dueling by Wholesale]

CHAPTER VI [A Sport that Sometimes Kills]

CHAPTER VII [How Bismark Fought]

CHAPTER VIII The Great French Duel [I Second Gambetta in a Terrific Duel]

CHAPTER IX [What the Beautiful Maiden Said]

CHAPTER X [How Wagner Operas Bang Along]

CHAPTER XI [I Paint a "Turner"]

CHAPTER XII [What the Wives Saved]

CHAPTER XIII [My Long Crawl in the Dark]

CHAPTER XIV [Rafting Down the Neckar]

CHAPTER XV [Charming Waterside Pictures]

CHAPTER XVI An Ancient Legend of the Rhine [The Lorelei]

CHAPTER XVII [Why Germans Wear Spectacles]

CHAPTER XVIII [The Kindly Courtesy of Germans]

CHAPTER XIX [The Deadly Jest of Dilsberg]

CHAPTER XX [My Precious, Priceless Tear-Jug]

CHAPTER XXI [Insolent Shopkeepers and Gabbling Americans]

CHAPTER XXII [The Black Forest and Its Treasures]

CHAPTER XXIII [Nicodemus Dodge and the Skeleton]

CHAPTER XXIV [I Protect the Empress of Germany]

CHAPTER XXV [Hunted by the Little Chamois]

CHAPTER XXVI [The Nest of the Cuckoo-clock]

CHAPTER XXVII [I Spare an Awful Bore]

CHAPTER XXVIII [The Jodel and Its Native Wilds]

CHAPTER XXIX [Looking West for Sunrise]

CHAPTER XXX [Harris Climbs Mountains for Me]

CHAPTER XXXI [Alp-scaling by Carriage]

CHAPTER XXXII [The Jungfrau, the Bride, and the Piano]

CHAPTER XXXIII [We Climb Far by Buggy]

CHAPTER XXXIV [The World's Highest Pig Farm]

CHAPTER XXXV [Swindling the Coroner]

CHAPTER XXXVI [The Fiendish Fun of Alp-climbing]

CHAPTER XXXVII [Our Imposing Column Starts Upward]

CHAPTER XXXVIII [I Conquer the Gorner Grat]

CHAPTER XXXIX [We Travel by Glacier]

CHAPTER XL [Piteous Relics at Chamonix]

CHAPTER XLI [The Fearful Disaster of 1865]

CHAPTER XLII [Chillon has a Nice, Roomy Dungeon]

CHAPTER XLIII [My Poor Sick Friend Disappointed]

CHAPTER XLIX [I Scale Mont Blanc by Telescope]

CHAPTER XLV A Catastrophe Which Cost Eleven Lives

CHAPTER XLVI [Meeting a Hog on a Precipice]

CHAPTER XLVII [Queer European Manners]

CHAPTER XLVIII [Beauty of Women and of Old Masters]

CHAPTER XLIX [Hanged with a Golden Rope]

CHAPTER L [Titian Bad and Titian Good]

APPENDIX

APPENDIX A. The Portier

APPENDIX B. Heidelberg Castle

APPENDIX C. The College Prison

APPENDIX D. The Awful German Language

APPENDIX E. LEGEND OF THE CASTLES

APPENDIX F. GERMAN JOURNALS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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