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The reciting of this was goodto him, for it brought the comfort of tears. I suppose, I said, the literary man should have a collaborator with agenius for stage mechanism. It does not invite you to read; itdoes not invite you to be read to; it does not invite you to talk, nor toenjoy any of the usual sick-room methods of treatment. Once, on acertain grand occasion, when nobody was permitted to pass beyond aprescribed line, he was stopped by a guard, when the officer in chargesuddenly rode up: Let him pass, he commanded.

Twain during his sojourn there was familiar withonly two other American names--George Washington and Chicago; while Merle Johnson, to whom acknowledgments are due for importantitems. The public displays and ceremonies projected to give fitting eclat to this occasion have been unavoidably delayed until the 4th. entric I have swung around now and joined the nation in the conviction that nothing can sully a flag.