A young man snowed in at Eastport, Maine, falls in love by telephone with a girl in San Francisco in the title story. Twain’s other pieces include the essay “On the Decay of the Art of Lying”, “Punch, Brothers, Punch”, about a jingle no one can get out of his head, “The Great Revolution in Pitcairn”, an interview gone wrong, Paris notes and his speech on the babies.
A grab-bag of Twain’s comic shorter work from the 1870s. Download the free EPUB.