Vulgar words in Mark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography (Page 1)
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Kydd; and them there are George Francis Train, Tom Pepper, Nebuchadnezzar and Baalam's Ass-they all belong to our family, but to a branch of it somewhat distantly removed from the honorable direct line-in fact, a collateral branch, whose members chiefly differ from the ancient stock in that, in order to acquire the notoriety we have always yearned and hungered for, they have got into a low way of going to jail instead of getting hanged.