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I have not known his equal among men forlovable qualities. Clemens sometimes set himself up as umpire, and became critic and gaveadvice, while Littleton and I played. ittens waslying on the veranda asleep--a butterfly came drifting along three feetor so above the floor. --[This was as late as the spring of 1886, at which time Howells'sfaith in the play was exceedingly shaky.

If a stray kitten was tobe fed and taken care of Henry was expected to attend to it, and he wouldfaithfully do so. We left the place in a motor-car, a crowd of boys following after. t, which rested upon a red-plush cushion and were inclosed in red embroidered slippers with a design of a cross. The Yankee in KingArthur's Court not only offended the English nation, but much of itoffended the b