MARK TWAIN
Japan, Colonel Rumsey, attache and Edward L.
Burlingame, later for many years editor of Scrib-
ner's Magazine, then a charming boy of eighteen.
Anson Burlingame definitely influenced Mark
Twain's future. His example, and his advice to
associate with persons of superior intellect were
timed to the exact moment when they would do
the most good. But the story of all this has been
told elsewhere.^1
Brown calls his horse Halcakala—extinct volcano, be-
cause if ever been any fire in him all gone out before he
came across him.
If a man ask thee to go with him a mile, go with him,
Twain—(Honolulu joke by Kd. Burlingame).
Which entry refers to a morning when young
Burlingame called and proposed a walk. When
Mark Twain objected the young man declared
there was a Scriptural command covering the
case. Clemens answered that if he could quote
one he'd obey it, which the other promptly did,
as above. This joke, often attributed to other
sources, had its origin here.
D'n Kanakas ride along with you—walk when you
walk, gallop when you gallop—trot when you trot—
never say a word—perfect shadows.
If you cut a shark in two you die—a man who was to
fish on shares had to cut a shark in 2—said that 20 years
ago he would have been afraid—would have died—now
believes in "hoola" doctrine. Still he got a little sick, and
all the natives came and said: It's because you cut the
shark? At last he said it was, and died.
"Honolulu, July 18, '66. I got my passport from the
Royal damned Hawaiian collector of customs and paid a
*Mark Twain—a Biography, chapter LIIT, pp. 285-288.
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