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And it was thus thatMark Twain himself had lived. Applications for agencies poured in. It was a generous, even if a somewhatUtopian, plan, eminently characteristic of its author. entric I have swung around now and joined the nation in the conviction that nothing can sully a flag.

He was beset withinvitations, but he declined most of them. He had sworn once, when he had finally finished 'A Tramp Abroad', that hewould never limit himself as to time again. Miss Gilder wrote to Oliver Wendell Holmes andinvited some verses, which with his never-failing kindliness he sent,though in his a Our tramp ismountainous, there are vast oceans in him, and lakes that are sea-likefor size, there are many rivers (veins and arteries) which ar