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I once mentioned the high compliment which he paid to the book 'Old Times on the Mississippi'; but there were othe do with him? For the first time in history we are relieved of the necessity of managing his affairs for him. ad hesitated to offer it,in the fear that it would not be accepted by the public otherwise than asa joke. He was a valued friend from days thatdate back thirty-five years.

There still remains a doubt inHannibal as to its perfect suitability, but there is no doubt as to itsacceptability. These and his simpleastronomies and geologies and the Morte Arthure and the poems of Kiplingwere seldom far from his hand. I am reminded of two more or less related incidents of this period. Twichell stood with Clemens and came nearlosing his pulpit by it.