A modified tune from The Mikado is repeatedly sung in this short story, in which Mr. Wilson accuses Mr. Billson of stealing a letter at a town meeting where eighteen men claim that they saved the life of Barclay Goodson. This short story ends with one man confessing that he too had claimed the central object, which Reverend Burgess is supposed to give to the man who saved a stranger's life. That man can be identified by a
A modified tune from The Mikado is repeatedly sung in this short story, in which Mr. Wilson accuses Mr. Billson of stealing a letter at a town meeting where eighteen men claim that they saved the life of Barclay Goodson. This short story ends with one man confessing that he too had claimed the central object, which Reverend Burgess is supposed to give to the man who saved a stranger's life. That man can be identified by a certain remark, which no one in this story's title (*) town can correctly guess. After everyone becomes greedy, the previously virtuous title town changes its motto to "Lead us into temptation." A mysterious man gives Mary and Edward Richards a sack of gold in, for 10 points, what short story by Mark Twain?
A modified tune from The Mikado is repeatedly sung in this short story, in which Mr. Wilson accuses Mr. Billson of stealing a letter at a town meeting where eighteen men claim that they saved the life of Barclay Goodson.
"The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg"