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Masonwas often a visitor there, and we may believe that his memory of thesummer was justified. Mark Twain in those days did not encourage the regular autograph-collectors, and seldom paid any attention to their requests for hissignature. He said: I am here to speak a few instructive words to my fellow-farmers. It was a long, happy walk we had, though rather a sad one in itsmemories; and he seemed that day, in

For one thing, the book-trade was light, and thenthe Claimant was not up to his usual standard. Clemens, excuse me. aw it all, from the very faintest suspicion of the coming dawn, all the way through to the final explosion of glory. ot, a rough-handed miner,being summoned, not so many years later, by royalty as one of America'sforemost men of letters.