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OREN-HAYNES. Twain, scratching his head, doubtfully, suppose we letLucretia slide. I don't think these people here would understand it or take to it, but he thinks it will pay us to try. They read to a packed house, andwhen the audience was gone and the returns had been counted an equaldivision of the profits was handed to each of the authors.

I steadied him back to his berth and shut out most of that deadlydampness. Yet Clemens seems never to have been openly violent with Paige. Poor as it is, it is better than real savagery, therefore we must stand by it, extend it, & (in public) praise it. Howells tells us of the wide, low cottage in a pine grove overlookingYork River, and how he used to sit with Clemens that summer at a cornerof the veranda farthest away from Mrs.