Twain on Juvenile Pugilists and Rural Folklore
A Detroit Free Press excerpt portrays Mark Twain on boy boxing, with anecdotes about a father scolding his fighting son and a telegraph tale of sending money home. It includes rustic dialogues from neighbors and a Pittsburgh physician joking about Hop Bitters.
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