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My Short story by Mark Twain is the excerpt from Roughing It. It was written in first person point of veiw.

In the begining a man (doesn't tell his name) is riding in a stage coach across land that is very dangerous, because people are often killed in that part of the country and the murderer is not punished. They hear gunshots from outside of the stage coach and everyone inside is very frightened by it. When they reach their stop they find out that the stage coach had been swiching drivers when a man shot the driver that had been driving as he got off the stage coach.

All along the trip the man had heard stories about a man called Slade. He finds out Slade has killed over twenty men and has never been caught, and that if you so much as look at him wrong he will shoot you. When they get off the train he starts talking to a man that was already at the station and lears that the man he is talking to is Slade. The man is very frightened and when there is only enough for one more cup of coffee and Slade offers it to him, he says no because he thinks that if he accepts it Slade will kill him. Slade insisted that the man drink the coffee which scares him even more. The man is suprised that he leaves without Slade killing him.

A few weeks later the man learns that a man was hanged in the area that he was a few weeks before. He learns that the man was hanged for killing astage coach driver and twenty-six other people, and that the mans name was Slade.


	Mark Twain \| home Mark Twain Bio \| Famous Writings \| Quotes \| Pictures \| My Short Story by Twain \| Timeline Of Mark Twains Life \| Sources Of Info My Short Story by Twain My Short story by Mark Twain is the excerpt from Roughing It. It was written in first person point of veiw. In the begining a man (doesn't tell his name) is riding in a stage coach across land that is very dangerous, because people are often killed in that part of the country and the murderer is not punished. They hear gunshots from outside of the stage coach and everyone inside is very frightened by it. When they reach their stop they find out that the stage coach had been swiching drivers when a man shot the driver that had been driving as he got off the stage coach. All along the trip the man had heard stories about a man called Slade. He finds out Slade has killed over twenty men and has never been caught, and that if you so much as look at him wrong he will shoot you. When they get off the train he starts talking to a man that was already at the station and lears that the man he is talking to is Slade. The man is very frightened and when there is only enough for one more cup of coffee and Slade offers it to him, he says no because he thinks that if he accepts it Slade will kill him. Slade insisted that the man drink the coffee which scares him even more. The man is suprised that he leaves without Slade killing him. A few weeks later the man learns that a man was hanged in the area that he was a few weeks before. He learns that the man was hanged for killing astage coach driver and twenty-six other people, and that the mans name was Slade.