Clemens one daygot up in a chair in his room on the second floor to pull down the highwindow-sash. In November Clemens wroteto Orion:The machine is apparently almost done--but I take no privileges on thataccount; it must be done before I spend a cent that can be avoided. It causeth me to smile when I read the modifications of my language which have been made in my English editions to fit them for the sensitive English palate. Justas he stepped into the auditorium there was a vigorous round of applause.
Down there by theisland is the place we used to swim, and yonder is where a man wasdrowned, and there's where the steamboat sank. Clemens had found that the clocks interferedwith his getting to sleep, and he had quieted them regardless of earlytrains and reading engagements. The Yellow Terror is threatening the world, but no matter what happens the United States says that it has had no part in it. Clemens, Augustin Daly, Joseph F.
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