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    Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
    Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
    Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
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    Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

    By Mark Twain

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature in the English language, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc was his last completed book—and, by his own estimate, his best. Its acquisition by Harper & Brothers allowed Twain to stave off bankruptcy. He died in 1910. 

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      Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again - Mark Twain

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

      by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again

      Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      Release Date: August 20, 2006 [EBook #3191]

      Last Updated: October 30, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GOLDSMITH'S FRIEND ABROAD AGAIN ***

      Produced by David Widger

      GOLDSMITH'S FRIEND ABROAD AGAIN

      By Mark Twain

           NOTE.—No experience is set down in the following letters

           which had to be invented.  Fancy is not needed to give

           variety to the history of a Chinaman's sojourn in America.

           Plain fact is amply sufficient.

      Contents

      LETTER I

      LETTER II

      LETTER III

      LETTER IV

      LETTER V

      LETTER VI

      LETTER VII

      LETTER I

                                                   SHANGHAI, 18—.

      DEAR CHING-FOO: It is all settled, and I am to leave my oppressed and overburdened native land and cross the sea to that noble realm where all are free and all equal, and none reviled or abused—America! America, whose precious privilege it is to call herself the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. We and all that are about us here look over the waves longingly, contrasting the privations of this our birthplace with the opulent comfort of that happy refuge. We know how America has welcomed the Germans and the Frenchmen and the stricken and sorrowing Irish, and we know how she has given them bread and work, and liberty, and how grateful they are. And we know that America stands ready to welcome all other oppressed peoples and offer her abundance to all that come, without asking what their nationality is, or their creed or color. And, without being told it, we know that the foreign sufferers she has rescued from oppression and starvation are the most eager of her children to welcome us, because, having suffered themselves, they know what suffering is, and having been generously succored, they long to be generous to other unfortunates and thus show that magnanimity is not wasted upon them.

                                             AH SONG HI.

      LETTER II

                                                        AT SEA, 18—.

      DEAR CHING-FOO: We are far away at sea now; on our way to the beautiful Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. We shall soon be where all men are alike, and where sorrow is not known.

      The good American who hired me to go to his country is to pay me $12 a month, which is immense wages, you know—twenty times as much as one gets in China. My passage in

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