The Stolen White Elephant — Mark Twain

One of Twain's most hilarious, but overlooked, masterpieces for any child or adult who can read or listen. Left out of "A Tramp Abroad", because it was feared that some of the particulars had been exaggerated or not true - the suspicions eventually proved groundless. Written in a manner only the author has ever been able to do, it is at once both entertaining and a valuable slice of American literature. The elephant was stolen in Jersey City, making it probably the only Twain story situated in the metropolitan New York area.