Re: CHAT: An introduction

I use a modified form of that essay (Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences)
for auditions (comedic monologue).  It always makes people who are listening
to it laugh (it turns out that half the time, the people I've auditioned for
weren't actually listening to the *words*, but to my delivery).  I
especially like the part where he talks about Cooper wearing out "barrels
and barrels of moccasins" with the trick of having moccasined people
following in the tracks of their moccasined enemies (to escape detection).

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
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"The very young do not always do as they're told." --
'Anteaus', Stargate SG-1

> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Sally Caves
> I give my History of the English Language students this hilarious essay by
> Twain.  That and his review of  James Fenimore Cooper's _The Last of the
> Mohicans_ are two of the funniest things by him I've ever read.
>
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