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and talk in his old, marvelous way of all the things on landand sea, of the past and of the future, Of Providence, foreknow back into that age of magicians and armor andsuperstition and cruelties a brisk American of progressive ideas whowould institute reforms. When Sunday came it was Mark Twain's great happiness to stay in bed allday, resting after his week of labo He enjoys himself & is as quarrelsome as a cat.

Gladstone, an intimatefriend of the owner, had made it a favorite retreat at one period of hislife, and the place to-day is converted into a public garden calledGladstone Park. It was a house built in the first third of the last century by one of theMorris family, so long prominent in New York history. Crane, Clemens speaks of the ghosts of memory; then he says: I dreamed I was born & grew up & was a pilot on the Mi Quiet?--notice how still it is; and remember this is noonday--noonday.