The Invalid's Story | Summary

At the beginning of Twain's "The Invalid's Story,'' the narrator explains that he looks and feels older than he is and that he used to be much healthier than he is now. He attributes his decline in health to the strange events of one winter night, in which he traveled with a box of guns for two hundred miles.

The narrator recalls how, two years before, he had arrived at his home in Cleveland, Ohio and learned of the recent death of his friend, John B. Hackett. Following Hackett' s last wishes, the narrator leaves for the train station to take Hackett's body back to his parents...

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