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Excellent guess, but nope.

The correct answer is much much shorter.

I'll provide a clue tomorrow AM if it does not come to anyone in their 
dreams (or nightmares) overnight.

Kevin
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Klauza" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: contest!


> Might it be his "Lantern for Sale," a burlesque advertisement in which =
> Diogenes is selling his lantern, published in a 1905 Harper's?
> The full text reads:=20
> "Lantern for Sale. Cheap. Apply to: Diogenes, 35 Cinder Square, Hell."
>
> Just a guess.
>
>
> Matthew D. Klauza
> ABD PhD Candidate & GTA
> Assistant Coordinator, Miller Writing Center
> Department of English
> Auburn University
> Auburn, Alabama
>>>> Kevin Mac Donnell <[log in to unmask]> 04/29/10 3:57 PM >>>
> Here's a simple contest open to all members of the Forum with the =3D
> exception of anyone who was present on a certain wine-tasting excursion =
> =3D
> in upstate NY last week, where I first posed this question.
>
> The prize is a pristine first edition copy of WHO IS MARK TWAIN? edited =
> =3D
> by Bob Hirst.
>
> How to win? Be the first to post the correct answer (in my sole opinion) =
> =3D
> to this question:
>
> What is Mark Twain's shortest published work?
>
> Clue: It was first published in a magazine and so far as I know has =3D
> never been collected in his works.
>
> More clues will follow if needed...
> =3D20
> Kevin
> @
> Mac Donnell Rare Books
> 9307 Glenlake Drive
> Austin TX 78730
> 512-345-4139
> Member: ABAA, ILAB
> *************************
> You may browse our books at=3D20
> www.macdonnellrarebooks.com
>


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