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He was as chaffy as he was sixty yearsago, too, and swore the Archbishop and I never walked to Boston; My air-ship was delayed by a collision with a fellow from China loadedwith the usual cargo of jabbering, copper-colored missionaries, and so Iwas nearly an hour on my journey. There are fragments of her writing that showthe true literary touch. The negro character is welldrawn, of course-Mark Twain could not write it less than well, but itsrealism

The following passage all by itself ought to elect him: Meade suggested to Grant that he might wish to have immediately under him Sherman, who had been serving with Grant in the West. He wrote Twichell: There may be idle people in the world, but I am not one of them. God conferred them upon him in the firstinstant of creation. And three days later: Great Scott, but it's a long year--for you & me! I never knew the almanac to drag so.