Tag: Drake’s Plantation Bitters
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The advertisement Mark Twain inserted into The Innocents Abroad
Mark Twain’s story of the Wandering Jew in Chapter 54 of the The Innocents Abroad says their guide pointed out a mark left on a wall by the Wandering Jew, which read: S T.—1860—X. It isn’t dwelt on in the book, probably because everyone in the United States reading the book understood the joke immediately.…