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And yet, says Howells, I think now that if it had come it would havebeen successful. It proved to be a charming play, and I couldsee that Clemens was enjoying it. We are full of pityat last when this pair of rapscallions ride out of the history on a rail,and feel some of Huc Also, he was unused to dictation, and found it hard and the resultunsatisfactory.

The date was set five days laterthan the actual birthday--that is to say, on December 5th, in order thatit might not conflict with the various Thanksgiving holidays andoccasions. They would ratherkill themselves in the old treadmill than stop and try to kill time. Perhaps they did notread it over-carefully, or perhaps they were swayed a good deal by a sortof general verdict that, in attempting 'Joan of Arc', Mark Twain had goneout of his proper field. They always said they wouldn't act.