can hear himwhispering to the others, 'He says he is Mark Twain,' and they all lookat me a good deal more suspic Its humor, too, is of a worthier sort, lesslikely to be forced and overdone. Dickinson's and on MarkTwain's door-steps. Thousands of them were distributed free.
Clemens wrote a number of things that summer, among them a little essayentitled, The Privilege of the Grave --that is to say, free speech. He had a pipe-cleaner which he kept on a high shelf. Twice or more he collected the children of the neighborhood for charadesand rehearsed them, and took part in the performance, as in the Hartford days. ould have givento the whole a less lurid aspect; or, to figure the effect in anotherway, they would have been coca mixed into vitriol.
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