August – Harper’s Monthly ran Sam’s sketch, “Luck” [Wilson 189]. Sam wrote the story in 1886 [MTB 842] after hearing it from Joe Twichell. Sam thought the story was “too improbable for literature” and so had put it aside until forced by the financial swamp of the typesetter to comb his materials for saleable material. The sketch would be reprinted in Merry Tales (1892).

Review of Reviews (London) ran an unsigned piece, “The Luck of Arthur Scoresby: One of Mark Twain’s Stories,” p.153. The article summarizes and extensively quotes Sam’s story, “Luck,” from the August Harper’s [Tenney 19].