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sketches by mark twain.
read about a gigantic Petrified Man being dug up near Syracuse, in the State of New York, or near any other place, keep your own counsel,—and if the Barnum that buried him there offers to sell to you at an enormous sum, don't you buy. Send him to the Pope!
Note.—The above sketch was written at the time the famous swindle of the "Petrified Giant" was the sensation of the day in the United States.
