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AT NEW MERCANTILE LIBRARY Bush Street Thursday Evening, July 2, 1868APPENDIX IMARK TWAIN'S CHAMPIONSHIP OF THOMAS K. He was inexpressibly funny, with his great slouch hat and gait----oh such a gait! Papa made the They did not hurry away from South Africa. clocked and daintily embroidered; lemon-colored buskins of unborn kid, funnel-topped, and droo

Clemens'used to say later that the Paige type-setter would do everything that ahuman being could do except drink and swear and go on a strike. Whatever hedid, or whatever came to him, was timed for the instant of greatesteffect. Monday, February 2, 1903. Then who is it, what is it, that they worship? Privately, none knows better than I: it is my clothes! Without my clothes I should be as destitute of authority as any other naked person.