Life on the Mississippi, Part 12.
By Mark Twain
- Release Date: 1910-04-21
- Genre: Travel Essays & Memoirs
Description
Observe, now, how history becomes defiled, through lapse of time and the help of the bad memories of men. Jimmy Finn was not burned in the calaboose, but died a natural death in a tan vat, of a combination of delirium tremens and spontaneous combustion. The tramp had used his matches disastrously: he had set his straw bed on fire, and the oaken sheathing of the room had caught.
