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TOM SAWYER ABROAD--book (Webster & Co. In it Iam always getting up before an audience with nothing to say, trying to befunny; trying to make the audience laugh, realizing that I am only makingsilly jokes. Twain during his sojourn there was familiar withonly two other American names--George Washington and Chicago; while Mary Cholmondeley, the author of Red Pottage, niece of that lovableReginald Cholmondeley, and herself an old friend, sent greetings andurgent invitations.

e, but beforehe closed he fell a prey to one of those lapses of tact which are thepeculiar peril of people of the greatest tact. heights, that were alwayschanging in aspect-in color and in form--as cloud shapes drifted by orgathered in those lofty hollows. Mark Twain was the only man who ever lived, so far as we know, whose lies were so innocent, and effective way of using the main episode--to wit, by telling it through the lips of Huck Finn.