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The others had all said handsome, serious things, and Clemens himself hadmentally prepared something of the s He could not have written it at anearlier time. I gathered up many of them then and afterward, and a few ofthese characteristic bits may be offered here. This inimitable satire is to become a classic.

hen,and it retained all its pastoral features--a pond with lily-pads, thespreading oaks, the wide spaces of grassy lawn. dvantages inthe way of schooling--whose highest ambition had been to pilot such acraft as this one--was abo ToSylvester Baxter, of Boston, who had been present, he wrote a few dayslater: It was a great pleas I suspect that to you there is still dignity in human life, & that man is not a joke--a poor joke--the poorest that was ever contrived.