Explore "The Facts in the Case of the Great Beef Contract" by Mark Twain on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
[Written about 1867.]
In as few words as possible I wish to lay before the nation what's here, howsoever small, I have had in this matter -- this matter which has so exercised the public mind, engendered so much ill-feeling, and so filled the newspapers of both continents with distorted statements and extravagant comments.