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Any one can stand his own misfortunes; but when Iread in the papers all about the rascalities and outrages going on Irealize what a creature the human animal is. ntan incomplete and misleading note (since often reprinted), which he oncemade in a moment of anger, when he was in a less judicial frame of mind. Which I do--and shut up. Clemens had also promised some stories to Walker,of the Cosmopolitan, and gave him one for his Christmas

I was particularly anxious to see this pageant, he said, so that Icould get ideas for my funeral procession, which I am planning on a largescale. Returning to New York, I ran out to Tuxedo, where he had taken a home forthe summer (for it was already May), a But indeedthe older you grow the less secure becomes the furniture. I turned around to look for the little girl, and instead of her I found a kitten capering beside me,