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And three days later: Great Scott, but it's a long year--for you & me! I never knew the almanac to drag so. Clemens could work at The Lair, often writing in shady seclusions alongthe shore, and he finished there the two-part serial,--[ Published inHarper's Magazine for January and February, 1902. The resolute old commander was very feeble bythis time. Or, use any method you like, so's you get it down--that is the only essential.

>From Susy's memoranda we gather that humanity at this time was to behealed of all evils and sorrows through mind cure Papa has been very much interested of late in the mind-cure theory. The interest in the game became quiescent, and he set to work to finishthe story at a dead heat. CLXIXTHE COMING OF KIPLINGIt was the summer of 1889 that Mark Twain first met Rudyard Kipling. Susy's birthday.