Well, not Twain himself, but the mullets he ascribed to nobility in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, that is… About bedtime I took the king to my private quarters to cut his hair and help him get the hang of the lowly raiment he was to wear. The high classes wore their hair […]
Month: 8 years ago
I’m going through some short stories with the boys and need to remind myself that we need to read Ambrose Bierce (among others) when we go through the U.S. Civil War again. They will add some depth to their studies. We just went over Bierce’s most famous short story, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” […]