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]Brander Matthews ranks Huck Finn before Joan of Arc, but that isunderstandable. But even in this matter England led the way, for she had set her slaves free thirty years before, and we but followed her example. I am so superstitious that I have always been afraid to have business dealings with certain relatives and friends of mine because they were unlucky people. I find that I've been at it, off & on, nearly two hours for 155 days since January 9.

Clemens, excuse me. He told of his recent trip to his boyhood home, and how he had stood withJohn Briggs on Holliday's Hill and they had pointed out the haunts oftheir youth. Most of those assembled declared that whena party's representatives chose a man one must stand by him. Clemens recorded a fewof the remarks that he made when he saw his edited manuscript: I will not deny that my feelings rose to 104 in the shade.