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Mark Twain poses us a little mystery in Pudd'nhead Wilson: which knife does the killing?
Mark Twain parodies this custom in the opening paragraph of Huck Finn , when he has Huck assure the reader that The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was true, even though written by this other fellow, Mark Twain: "There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth."
The president's top picks are Shania Twain, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and "wrestling sensation" Sable.
In his essay “The Awful German Language,” Mark Twain spoofs the confusion engendered by German gender by translating from a conversation in a German Sunday school book:
Twain continues: “a tree is male, its buds are female, its leaves are neuter; horses are sexless, dogs are male, cats are female--tomcats included.”