A Horse's Tale

by Mark Twain

Overview

Although I have had several opportunities to see a bull-fight, I have never seen one; but I needed a bull-fight in this book, and a trustworthy one will be found in it. I got it out of John Hay's Castilian Days, reducing and condensing it to fit the requirements of this small story. Mr. Hay and I were friends from early times, and if he were still with us he would not rebuke me for the liberty I have taken.
The knowledge of military minutiæ exhibited in this book will be found to be correct, but it is not mine; I took it from Army Regulations, ed. 1904; Hardy's Tactics-Cavalry, revised ed., 1861; and Jomini's Handbook of Military Etiquette, West Point ed., 1905.
It would not be honest in me to encourage by silence the inference that I composed the Horse's private bugle-call, for I did not. I lifted it, as Aristotle says. It is the opening strain in The Pizzicato in Sylvia, by Delibes. When that master was composing it he did not know it was a bugle-call, it was I that found it out.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781533530462
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	05/30/1907
Pages:	42
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.09(d)

About the Author

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910). He is best remembered for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (often considered to be The Great American Novel).

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Series Editors’ Preface
A Note on the Language
Acknowledgments
Editor’s Introduction by Charles C. Bradshaw
A Note on the Text
A Horse’s Tale
Afterword by Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Appendix 1: Mark Twain and Animal Welfare
Appendix 2: Childhood and the Clemens Family
Appendix 3: The American Frontier Goes Global
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index