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I referred to the pressure of social demands in the city, and the reliefhe would find in his country home. It was probably this trait whichcaused some one occasionally to claim that Mark Twain was close in moneymatters. She hadinterested a great body of Jewish children in the plays of Shakespeare,and of more modern dramatists, and these they had performed from time totime with great success. Twain paused, looked inquiringly at his hearers, and remarkedthat the applause should come in at this point.

This report--exploitedin five-column head-lines by a hyper-hysterical paper of that periodreceived wide attention. With much of the same sense of humorwhich had made his uncle's fame, he had what was really an abnormalfaculty of acquiring and retaining encyclopedic data. He put another usual sum about this time in a patent cash registerwhich was acknowledged to be a promise rather than a performance, andremains so until this day. HUCK FINN continued (Quarry Farm, Elmira).