Excerpt from The Boys Life of Mark Twain: The Story of a Man Who Made the World Laugh and Love Him This is the story Of a boy, born in the humblest surroundings, reared almost Without schooling, and amid benighted conditions such as to-day have no existence, yet Who lived to achieve a world-wide fame; to attain honorary degrees from the greatest universities of America and Europe; to be sought by statesmen and kings; to be loved and honored by all men in all lands, and mourned by them When he died. It is the story of one Of the world's very great men - the story of Mark Twain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.