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1601, Conversation, as It Was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors

1601, Conversation, as It Was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors,
sketch written by Clemens, under his pseudonym Mark Twain, in 1876 and purporting to transcribe a ribald conversation of Queen Elizabeth, Raleigh, Bacon, Shakespeare, and others on the subjects of flatulency and sexual relations. First privately printed in 1880, the work has often been reprinted.

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