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--[This is the first of Mark Twain's after-dinner speeches to bepreserved. It was all so good-natured, so openly sincere. All gone, he said, bending over his daughter. Which is hardly a fair statement of the case.

I should have come earlier or later. He praised Walter's philological work, citing examples to prove he was thoroughly conversant with it; he spok Isn't that a guitar over there? he asked. There never lived a more modest, less pretentious, lessaggressive man than Mark Twain, but there never lived a man who took amore childli