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Mighty Old Tales Retold
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Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Thursday Aug 20, 2020
Mark Twain
Following the Equator - Chapter XLVII
Thugs Continued—Record of Murders—A Joy of Hunting and Killing Men—Gordon Cumming—Killing an Elephant—Family Affection among Thugs—Burial Places
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Mark Twain
Following the Equator - Chapter XLVI
The Thugs—Government Efforts to Exterminate them—Choking a Victim—A Fakeer Spared—Thief Strangled
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Mark Twain -
Following the Equator - Chapter XLV
Elephant Riding—Howdahs—The New Palace—The Prince's Excursion—Gold and Silver Artillery—A Vice-royal Visit—Remarkable Dog—The Bench Show—Augustin Daly's Back Door
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Mark Twain
Following the Equator - Chapter XLIV
Official Thug Book—Supplies for Traveling, Bedding, and other Freight—Scene at Railway Station—Making Way for White Man—Waiting Passengers, High and Low Caste, Touch in the cars—Our Car—Beds made up—Dreaming of Thugs—Baroda—Meet Friends—Indian Well—The Old Town—Narrow Streets—A Mad Elephant
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Sunday Aug 16, 2020
Mark Twain
Following the Equator - Chapter XLIII
Murder Trial in Bombay—Confidence Swindlers—Some Specialities of India—The Plague, Juggernaut, Suttee, etc—Everything on Gigantic Scale—India First in Everything—80 States, more Custom Houses than Cats—Rich Ground for Thug Society
Saturday Aug 15, 2020
Saturday Aug 15, 2020
Mark Twain
Following the Equator - Chapter XLII
A Hindoo Betrothal, midnight, Sleepers on the ground, Home of the Bride of Twelve Years Dressed as a Boy—Illumination—Nautch Girls—Imitating Snakes—Later—Illuminated Porch Filled with Sleepers—The Plague
Friday Aug 14, 2020
Friday Aug 14, 2020
Mark Twain
Following the Equator - Chapter XLI
A Jain Temple—Mr. Roychand's Bungalow—A Decorated Six-Gun Prince—Human Fireworks—European Dress, Past and Present—Complexions—Advantages with the Zulu—Festivities at the Bungalow—Nautch Dancers—Entrance of the Prince—Address to the Prince
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Thursday Aug 13, 2020
Mark Twain
Following the Equator - Chapter XL
The Government House at Malabar Point—Mansion of Kumar Shri Samatsin Hji Bahadur—The Indian Princess—A Difficult Game—Wardrobe and Jewels—Ceremonials—Decorations when Leaving—The Towers of Silence—A Funeral
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Mark Twain
Following the Equator - Chapter XXXIX
God Vishnu, 108 Names—Change of Titles or Hunting for an Heir—Bombay as a Kaleidoscope—The Native's Man Servant—Servants' Recommendations—How Manuel got his Name and his English—Satan—A Visit from God
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Mark Twain
Following the Equator - Chapter XXXVIII
Steamer Rosetta to Bombay—Limes 14 cents a Barrel—Bombay, a Bewitching City—Descriptions of People and Dress—Woman as a Road Decoration—India, the Land of Dreams and Romance—Fourteen Porters to Carry Baggage—Correcting a Servant—Killing a Slave—Arranging a Bedroom—Three Hours' Work and a Terrible Racket—The Bird of Birds, the Indian Crow