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' Well, sir, after they'd filled upI set out the jug. Clemens could work at The Lair, often writing in shady seclusions alongthe shore, and he finished there the two-part serial,--[ Published inHarper's Magazine for January and February, 1902. ll commerce: The general conclusionbeing that the morals of the Lord had been the morals of the beginn Articles and sketches for the Californian.

We excuse ourself from all thefriends that call--though, of course, only intimates come. I think I have seldom deliberately set out to be humorous, but have nearly always allowed the humor to drop in or stay out, according to its fancy. Your word directly is misleading; it could be construed to mean at once. Clemens, in fact, seemed to derive joyfrom the thought that he was commissioning a kind of personal emissary tohis old comrades, and provided me with a letter of credentials.