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I have written 12,000 words of this new narrative, & find that the humor flows as easily as the adventures & surprises--so I shall go along and make a book of from 50,000 to 100,000 words. Able critics have declared that the psychology of Huck Finn is the book'slarge feature: Huck's moral point of view--the str Clam here sick--never well since June 5. THE DERELICT--poem (Paris) (unpublished).

To-day he has been absorbed in his old interest in shorthand. Weplayed billiards for a time, then set out for a walk, following the longdrive to the leafy lane that led to my own property. sum, when I can raise it, to the Anti-Imperialist League, Boston, to which I am a contributor, the only missionary work I am responsible for. On Sunday mornings the return walk would be timed for about the hour thatthe churches would be dismissed.