Undoubtedly TomSawyer's distaste for school and his excuses for staying at home--usuallysome pretended illness--have ample foundation in the boyhood of SamClemens. We had thought of precipitating upon you, George Warner and his wife one day, Twichell and his jewel of a wife another day, and Charles Perkins and wife another. The air to him suddenly began to shimmer; all histhoughts were of leads and ledges and veins ; all his clouds hadsilver linings; all his dreams were of gold. But this was manifestly a mistake.
As a bear he was a success. A letter from the Auroraminer written near the end of July presents the situation very fully. Brown was the most present, the most tender. Nefret's musical voice quelled the complainants.
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