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Apparatus Notes
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1.   The Miner’s Dream (Full Page). Frontispiece emendation
2.   Envious Contemplations
3.   Innocent Dreams
4.   Light Traveling Order
5.   The “Allen”
6.   Inducements to Purchase
7.   The Facetious Driver
8.   Pleasing News
9.   The Sphynx
10.   Meditation
11.   On Business
12.   Author as Gulliver
13.   A Tough Statement
14.   Third Trip of the Unabridged
15.   A Powerful Glass
16.   An Heirloom
17.   Our Landlord
18.   Dignified Exile
19.   Drinking Slumgullion
20.   A Joke without Cream
21.   Pullman Car Dining-Saloon
22.   Our Morning Ride
23.   Prairie Dogs
24.   A Cayote
25.   Showing Respect to Relatives
26.   The Conductor
27.   The Superintendent as a Teacher emendation
28.   Jack and the Elderly Pilgrim
29.   Crossing the Platte
30.   An Inhuman Spectacle emendation
31.   A New Departure
32.   Suspended Operations
33.   A Wonderful Lie
34.   Tail-Piece
35.   “Here he comes!” emendation
36.   Changing Horses
37.   Riding the Avalanche
38.   Indian Country
39.   A Proposed Fist-Fight emendation
40.   From behind the Door
41.   Slade as emendation Executioner
42.   An Unpleasant View
43.   Unappreciated Politeness
44.   Tail-Piece emendation
45.   Slade in Court
46.   A Wife’s Lamentationemendation
47.   The Concentrated Inhabitant
48.   The South Pass (Full Page)
49.   The Parted Streamemendation
50.   It Spoiled the Melon
51.   Given Over to the Cayote and the Raven
52.   “Don’t come here!emendation
53.   “Think I’m a dam fool?emendation
54.   The “Destroying Angel”
55.   Effects of “Valley Tan”
56.   One Crest
57.   The Other
58.   The Vagrant
59.   Portrait of Heber Kimball
60.   Portrait of emendation Brigham Young
61.   The Contractors before the King
62.   I Was Touched
63.   The Endowment— emendation Tail-Piece
64.   Favorite Wife and D emendation 4
65.   Needed Marking
66.   A Remarkable Resemblance
67.   The Family Bedstead
68.   The Miraculous Compass
69.   Three Sides to a Question
70.   Result of High Freights
71.   A Shriveled Quarter
72.   An Object of Pity
73.   Tail-Piece
74.   Tail-Piece
75.   Goshoot emendation Indians Hanging around Stations
76.   The Drive for Life
77.   Greeley’s Ride
78.   Bottling an Anecdote
79.   Tail-Piece
80.   Contemplation
81.   The Washoe Zephyr
82.   The Governor’s House
83.   Dark Disclosures
84.   The Irish Brigade
85.   Recreation
86.   The Tarantula
87.   Light Thrown on the Subject
88.   I Steered
89.   The Invalid
90.   The Restored
91.   Our House
92.   At Business
93.   Fire emendation at Lake Tahoe (Full Page)
94.   “You might think he was an American horse.” emendation
95.   Unexpected Elevation
96.   Universally Unsettled
97.   Riding the Plug
98.   Wanted Exercise
99.   Borrowing Made Easy
100.   Free Rides
101.   Satisfactory Voucher emendation
102.   Needs Praying For
103.   Map of Toll-Roads emendation
104.   Unloading Silver Bricks
105.   View in Humboldt Mountains
106.   Going to Humboldt
107.   Ballou’s Bedfellow
108.   Pleasures of Camping Out
109.   The Secret Search
110.   “Cast your eye on that! emendation
111.   “We’ve got it! emendation
112.   Incipient Millionaires
113.   Rocks—Tail-Piece
114.   “Do you see it?”
115.   Farewell Sweet River
116.   The Rescue
117.   “Mr. Arkansas”
118.   An Armed Ally
119.   Crossing the Flood
120.   Advance in a Circle
121.emendation    The Songster
122.   The Foxes Have Holes—Tail-Piece
123.   A Flat Failure
124.   The Last Match
125.emendation    Discarded Vices
126.   Flames—Tail-Piece
127.   Camping in the Snow (Full Page)
128.   It Was Thus We Met
129.   Taking Possession
130.   A Great Effort
131.   Reärranging emendation and Shifting
132.   We Left Lamented
133.   Picture of Townsend’s Tunnel
134.   Quartz Mill in Nevada emendation
135.   Another Process of Amalgamation
136.   First Quartz Mill in Nevada
137.   A Slice of Rich Ore
138.   The Saved Brother
139.   On a Secret Expedition
140.   Mono Lake emendation (Full Page)
141.   Rather Soapy
142.   A Bark under Full Sail
143.   A Model Boarding House
144.   Life amid Death
145.   A Jump for Life
146.   “Stove heap gone! emendation
147.   Tail-Piece emendation
148.   Interviewing the “Wide West”
149.   Worth a Million
150.   Millionaires Laying Plans
151.   Dangerously Sick
152.   Worth Nothing
153.   Enforcing a emendation Compromise
154.   One of My Failures
155.   Target Shooting
156.   As City Editor
157.   The Entire Market
158.   A Friend Indeed
159.   Union—Tail-Piece
160.   An Educational Report
161.   No Particular Hurry
162.   Bird’s emendation Eye View of Virginia emendation and Mount emendation Davidson
163.   A New Mine
164.   “Take a few?” emendation
165.   Portrait of Mr. Stewart
166.   Selling a Mine
167.   Couldn’t Wait
168.   The Great “Flour Sack” Procession (Full Page)
169.   Tail-Piece
170.   A Nabob
171.   Magnificence and Misery
172.   A Friendly Driver
173.   Astonishes the Natives
174.   Col. Jack “Weakens” emendation
175.   Committeeman and emendation Minister
176.   Scotty emendation Regulating Matters
177.   Never emendation Shook His Mother
178.   Scotty as a Sunday School emendation Teacher
179.   The Man Who Had Killed a emendation Dozen
180.   The Unprejudiced Jury
181.   A Desperado Giving Reference
182.   Satisfying a Foe
183.   Tail-Piece
184.   Imparting emendation Information
185.   A Walking Battery
186.   Overhauling His Manifest
187.   Ship—Tail-Piece
188.   The Heroes and Heroines of the Story
189.   Dissolute Author
190.   Unlooked-for Appearance of emendation the Lawyer
191.   The Storm Increased emendation
192.   Jonah Outdone
193.   Dollinger
194.   “Low bridge!” emendation
195.   Shortening Sail
196.   Lightening Ship
197.   The Marvelous emendation Rescue
198.   Silver Bricks
199.   Timber Supports
200.   From Gallery to Gallery
201.   Jim Blaine
202.   Hurrah for Nixon
203.   Miss Wagner
204.   Waiting for a Customer
205.   Was to Be There
206.   The Monument
207.   Where Is the Ram?—Tail-Piece
208.   Chinese Wash Bill
209.   Imitation
210.   Chinese Lottery
211.   Chinese Merchant at Home— Tail-Piece emendation
212.   An Old Friend
213.   Farewell and Accident
214.   “Gimme a cigar! emendation
215.   The Herald of Glad News
216.   Flag—Tail-Piece
217.   An Eastern Landscape emendation
218.   A Variable Climate
219.   Sacramento and Three Hours Away
220.   “Fetch her out! emendation
221.   Well, if it ain’t a child! emendation
222.   A Genuine Live Woman
223.   The Grace of a Kangaroo
224.   Dreams Dissipated
225.   The “ One-Horse emendation Shay” Outdone
226.   Hard on the Innocents
227.   Dry Bones Shaken
228.   Oh, what shall emendation I do!”
229.   “Get out your towel my dear! emendation
230.   “We will omit the benediction! emendation
231.   Slinking
232.   A Prize
233.   A Look in at the Window
234.   “Do it, stranger. emendation
235.   The Old Collegiate
236.   Striking a Pocket
237.   Tom Quartz
238.   An Advantage Taken
239.   After an Excursion
240.   The Three Captains
241.   The Old Admiral
242.   Deserted emendation Field
243.   Williams
244.   Scene on the Islands emendation
245.   Fashionable Attire
246.   A Bite
247.   Reconnoitering
248.   Eating Tamarinds
249.   Looking for Mischief
250.   A Family Likeness
251.   Sat emendation Down to Listen
252.   “My brother all same—we twins! emendation
253.   Extraordinary Capers
254.   A Load of Hay
255.   Marching through Georgia—Tail-Piece
256.   Sandwich Island Girls
257.   Original Ham Sandwich
258.   I Kissed Him for His Mother emendation
259.   An Outsider—Tail-Piece
260.   An Enemy’s Prayer
261.   Visiting the Missionaries
262.   Full Church Dress
263.   Playing Empire
264.   Royalty and Its Satellites
265.   A High Private—Tail-Piece
266.   A Modern Funeral
267.   Former Funeral Orgies
268.   A Passenger
269.   Moonlight on the Water
270.   Going into the Mountains (Full Page)
271.   Evening—Tail-Piece
272.   The Demented
273.   Discussing Turnips
274.   Greeley’s Letter
275.   Kealakekua Bay and Cook’s Monument
276.   The Ghostly Builders
277.   On Guard
278.   The Tabu Broken emendation
279.   Tail-Piece emendation
280.   Surf-Bathing—Success emendation
281.   Surf-Bathing—Failure emendation
282.   The emendation City of Refuge
283.   The Queen’s Rock
284.   Tail-Piece
285.   The Pillar of Fire
286.   The Crater
287.   Breaking emendation Through
288.   Fire Fountains
289.   Lava Stream
290.   A Tidal Wave
291.   Trip on the Milky Way
292.   A View in the Iao Valley (Full Page)
293.   Magnificent Sport
294.   Eleven Miles to See
295.   Chased by a Storm
296.   Leaving Work
297.   Tail-Piece
298.   Our Amusements
299.   Severe Case of Stage-Fright emendation
300.   My Three Parquette Allies
301.   Sawyer in the Circle
302.   A Predicament
303.   Best Part emendation of the Joke
304.   The End
Editorial Emendations
  The Miner’s Dream (Full Page). Frontispiece  (C)  •  The Miners’ Dream (Full Page,) Face Page . . . flush right Frontispiece. (Prb A)  (Full Page) . . . flush right Frontispiece. (Pra) 
  The Superintendent as a Teacher (C)  •  Teaching a Subordinate  (A) 
  An Inhuman Spectacle (C)  •  I Began to Pray  (A) 
  “Here he comes!” (C)  •  Here he comes  (A) 
  Fist-Fight (C)  •  Fist Fight  (A) 
  as (C)  •  as an  (A) 
  Tail-Piece (C)  •  not in  (A) 
  Lamentation (C)  •  Lamentations  (A) 
  Stream (C)  •  Streams  (A) 
  here! (C)  •  here  (A) 
  dam fool? (C)  •  Fool  (A) 
  of (C)  •  oe  (A) 
  Endowment— (C)  •  Endowment, (A) 
  D (C)  •  D. (A) 
  Goshoot (C)  •  Goshott  (A) 
  Fire (C)  •  Fight  (A) 
  he was an American horse.” (C)  •  him an American Horse’ (A) 
  Voucher (C)  •  Vouchers  (A) 
  Toll-Roads (C)  •  Toll Roads  (A) 
  that!  (C)  •  that  (A) 
  it! (C)  •  it  (A) 
  121. (C)  •  120, (A) 
  125. (C)  •  124 (A) 
  Reärranging (C)  •  Rearranging  (A) 
  in Nevada (C)  •  not in  (A) 
  Mono Lake (C)  •  Lake Mono  (A) 
  gone! (C)  •  gone  (A) 
  Tail-Piece (C)  •  not in  (A) 
  Enforcing a (C)  •  The  (A) 
  Bird’s (C)  •  Birds  (A) 
  Virginia (C)  •  Virginia City  (A) 
  Mount (C)  •  Mt. (A) 
  “Take a few?” (C)  •  Try a Few  (A) 
  “Weakens” (C)  •  Weakens  (A) 
  Committeeman and (C)  •  Scotty Briggs and the  (A) 
  Scotty (C)  •  not in  (A) 
  Never (C)  •  Didn’t  (A) 
  a Sunday School (C)  •  S. S. (A) 
  a (C)  •  his  (A) 
  Imparting (C)  •  Giving  (A) 
  Unlooked-for Appearance of (C)  •  There sat  (A) 
  The Storm Increased (C)  •  not in  (A) 
  “Low bridge!” (C)  •  Low bridge  (A) 
  Marvelous (C)  •  Marvellous  (A) 
  Tail-Piece (C)  •  Tail Piece  (A) 
  cigar! (C)  •  cigar  (A) 
  An Eastern Landscape (C)  •  A New England Scene  (A) 
  out! (C)  •  out  (A) 
  Well, if it ain’t a child! (C)  •  Well if it aint a Child  (A) 
  One-Horse (C)  •  One Horse  (A) 
  Oh, what shall  (C)  •  Oh! What shall  (A) 
  dear! (C)  •  dear  (A) 
  benediction! (C)  •  benediction  (A) 
  it, stranger. (C)  •  it stranger  (A) 
  Deserted (C)  •  The Deserted  (A) 
  Islands (C)  •  Sandwich Islands  (A) 
  Sat (C)  •  Sit  (A) 
  brother all same—we twins! (C)  •  Brother, We Twins  (A) 
  I . . . Mother (C)  •  “I . . . Mother” (A) 
  The Tabu Broken (C)  •  Breaking the Tabu  (A) 
  Tail-Piece (C)  •  not in  (A) 
  Surf-Bathing—Success (C)  •  Surf Bathing  (A) 
  Surf-Bathing—Failure (C)  •  Surf Bathing a Failure  (A) 
  The (C)  •  not in  (A) 
  Breaking (C)  •  Broke  (A) 
  Stage-Fright (C)  •  Stage Fright  (A) 
  Best Part (C)  •  The Best  (A)