"How I Edited an Agricultural Paper" was originally published in Mark Twain's 1875 collection of short stories, Sketches New and Old . "Luck" was first published in 1891 in Harper's Magazine . It was subsequently reprinted in 1892 in the anthology Merry Tales. "Something About Repentence" is taken from Letters from the Earth , which was written circa 1909 and published posthumously in 1962.