Jim Baker’s Bluejay Yarn (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Twain
- First Published: 1879
- Type of Plot: Tall tale
- Time of Work: About 1860
- Setting: The California Mother Lode country
- Principal Characters: Jim Baker
- Genres: Short fiction, Tall tale
- Subjects: Nature, Hermits, Birds
- Locales: California
The Story
“Jim Baker's Bluejay Yarn” was first published as chapter 3 of Mark Twain's travel narrative A Tramp Abroad (1880). In that version, the actual narrative is preceded by an introduction, which appears at the end of chapter 2, in which the narrator of A Tramp Abroad introduces Jim Baker as “a middle-aged, simple-hearted miner who had lived in a lonely corner of California among the woods and mountains a good many years, and had studied the ways of his only neighbors, the beasts and the birds, until he believed he could accurately translate any remark...
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