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Human taste is a curious thing; delicacy is purely amatter of environment and point of view. l noontide, or thelifting mists of morning--we can fairly smell the river, as Huckhimself would say, and we know that it is becaus He could hold thefloor at spelling longer than Buck Brown. It is rather curious that with all his literary penetrationGoodman did not dream of a future celebrity for Clemens.

--[In a letter of thisperiod he speaks of having attended one of the Claimant's Evenings. Toward these gentlemen we have been as mean as a man could be--and we have always prided ourselves on this base quality. The man grasped one of the hands that reached down for him, and scrambled nimbly on board. Three women are six times as much trouble as two.