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It is not a boy's book at all. Perhaps it was even suggested that, in a house so small and sosufficiently filled, there was no real need of his coming at all. would be settled otherwise than on the street corners,in the halls of legislation, and at the polls. I suppose it was you who erected the headstone.

--[In a note-book of a laterperiod Clemens himself wrote: It depends on who writes a thing whetherit is coarse or not. It was favorable on the whole, favorable to thehumor of the book, its delicious impudence, the charm of its good-natured irony. Sometimes, after the turmoil ofa legislative morning, he would drop in to Miss Keziah Clapp's school andlisten to the exerci Talmage was not the only divine to receive attention in theMemoranda.