by Mark Twain
The narrator visits Simon Wheeler in a tavern in Angel's Camp, Calaveras County, California, a gold rush mining town. He calls on Wheeler at the request of his friend from back East to ask after the Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley. He finds Simon Wheeler dozing by the stove and describes him as old, fat, simple, and gentle. As Wheeler backs the narrator into a corner and launches into a series of tall tales about a completely different man named Jim Smiley, the narrator suspects that his friend made up
ISBN: 9798729986040
44 pages
Published: 2021-04-10
Publisher: Independently published