book, in the second volumeof Following the Equator, an informing, absorbing, and enchanting storyof Indian travel. He did come down-stairs many times daily, and he persisted in billiards regardless of theparoxysms. The first reason is, that it is in the nature of man to wanta definite something to love, honor, reverently look up to and obey; aGod and King, for example. In his reprieve he was like some wild thing that had regained liberty.
Just before leaving, Clemens received an offer from Pond offifty thousand dollars for one hundred and twenty-five nights on theplatform in America. Clemens wrote to Twichell: That good & unoffending lady, the Empress, is killed by a madman, & I am living in the midst of world-history again. Hell is full of people who have made that mistake. --A lady who is invited to and attends a doe luncheon is, of course, a doe.
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