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one by Christian missionaries inthe Congo, especially among natives afflicted by the terrible sleepingsickness. I knew fully half of those present, he said afterward. Well, Mark, he said, here are six copies of that book, to begin with. I do not know why I have not said before that he smokedcontinually during these dictations--probably as an aid to thought--though he smoked at most other times, for that matter.

So Samuel Clemens had reached the half-century mark; reached it in whatseemed the fullness of success from every viewpoint. Steamer Trombone, VICKSBURG, May 8, 1859. Another--probably the inspiration of some very hot afternoon--was topresent life in the interior of an iceberg, where a colony would l nterlinking of details, oftenfar removed, into a marvelously intricate pattern which no art can hopeto reproduce, and can only feebly imitate.