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that there was a legendconnected with this matter; and I felt as if there could be no morefitting time to listen to it than the present. punishments of all theages are still preserved and still inflicted, that there is one countryin Christendom wh Only here thelikeness ceases. The summer of 1894 found Mark Twain in the proper frame of mind forliterary work.

He wrote a newspaper letter onthe subject, a burlesque, naturally, which the family prevailed upon himnot to print. His early business periodresembles, in some of its features, his mining experience in Esmeralda,his letters to Webster being not unlike those to Orion in that formerday. g that enabled me to work out my salvation and pay a hundred centson the dollar--the most valuable service any man ever did me. One other address Clemens delivered that winter, at Fair Haven, on theopening of the Millicent Library, a present to the town from Mrs.