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(See Chapters cxxxiv to cxxxvii. of it in Huck Finn, which was published four weeks ago), for she wanted the same artist to make one of General Grant. They were a good deal confused. AnEnglishman wrote: I want to thank you for writing so pathetic and soprofoundly true a story ; and an American declared it to be the bestshort story ever written.

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