A few days before, Mark Twain entered in his note-book: In that day the Imperial lion and the Democratic lamb shall sit down together, and a little General shall feed them. Writing to MacAlisterat the end of the year, he said, I seem to have made many speeches, butit is not so. Most sincerely yours, MARK TWAIN. Wallace carried up coal & blacked the boots two months--has suddenly gone to the hospital--pleurisy and a bad case.
As gratefully as delightedly, Your abiding friend, JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. He did not immediately give it up. I shall figure up the rise, as the figures come in, and push up my literary prices accordingly, till I get my literature up to where nobody can afford it but the family. ill keep that episode alive and important as literature when otherwiseit would have been merely embalmed, and dimly remembered, as history.
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