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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) ( 1835 – 1910 ) Author of American novels, including The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Adventures of Tom Sawyer Plate 49 Mark Twain’s Gambling Horse Thieves Get “Prime Drunk” Autographed manuscript unsigned, one page, numbered leaf 193 , sixteen lines with three cancellations and three insertions. From Twain’s unfinished sequel to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn . This page begins when Huck and Brace, his newfound friend, search out the location of a band of horse thieves. transcription 193 […] by. Then we crept along on our knees, slow & careful, to the edge of the bank, through the bush & there was the camp, a little ways up, & right in the dry bed of the river; two big buffalo-skin lodges, a hand of horses tied & eight men carousing & gambling around a fire—all white men, & the roughest kind, & prime drunk. Brace said they had camped there so their camp couldn’t be seen easy, but they might as well camped in the open as go & get drunk & make such a […]