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There would be no more me. Twain'sspeeches--a pure and perfect example of simple eloquence, worthy of theoccasion which gave it u Clemens and Clara werewilling to go night after night and hear that tale time and again, forits effect on each new, audience. but 20 yards of shingle--& hardly a suggestion of life in that space to mar it or to make a noise.

rs, among them some high praise of my description in 'A Tramp Abroad' of certain striking phases of German student life. But the lectures were never concluded, for Sam would reply with awitticism, or dry, unexpected humor, that would drive the lecture cleanout of my mother's mind, and change it to a laugh. Beecher once came with some curious thin layers of leaves of stonewhich she had found, knowing Mark Twain's interest in geology. l dangling a ridiculous manikin, throwing himself backand roaring out his great bursting guffaws at its pitiful antics.