I have found that students enjoy reading _No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger_, the only version of the tale that can arguably be called complete. In particular, my students have been fascinated by Twain's preoccupation with extraordinary states of mind and his fictive exploration of the mind's unusual abilities. They romp along with Twain as he zigzags through a series of mental labyrinths and to a conclusion that students, for the most part, find fitting and satisfying. After reading _No. 44, students who have read the earlier bastardized version are astonished at the difference they find in tone and overall effect, from a darker and bleaker vision recognized in the earlier version to the playful and comically disruptive view that colors _No. 44_. Of course, my own bias may partially direct them here. Nonetheless, students respond favorably--sometimes wildly--to Twain's excursion into doubleness, duplicates, and dream selves and the breeziness of the roaming printer, Doangivadam, as well as the hilarious treatment of Mary Baker Eddy; they even find the penultimate chapter of _No. 44_, with its eerie recall of history's notables strangely moving. Such material is missing from the earlier version by Paine and Duneka. Let's not cheat readers or Twain; ignore the fraud, attend to the rewardingly authentic. --Jason G. Horn Division of Humanities Gordon College Barnesville, Georgia 30204 [log in to unmask]