MARK TWAIN

"Dan" and "Jack" and "the Doctor" in that far
day before they became immortal as "innocents
abroad."

The first entry, recording as it docs the begin-
ning of this historic voyage, is perhaps as notable
as any memorandum in literary history.

Holy Land Pleasure Excursion
Steamer Quaker City
Capt. C. C. Duncan
Left N. Y. at 2 P.M., June 8, '67.
Rough weather—anchored within the harbor to
lay all night

Lying in the harbor he lias a chance to look
over the passengers and make a few comments,
such as:

The Frenchy-looking woman with a dog—small
mongrel, black-and-tan brute, with long sharp ears that
stick up like a donkey's and give him an exceedingly
wild and excited expression, even in his mildest moods.
When he is skirmishing about the cabin she follows him
anxiously about and interrupts his enterprises, and
meanwhile keeps up an interminable biography of him,
to the passengers, embellished with anecdotes illustrative
of his general disposition and with stories of some of his
most remarkable performances. The dog is noisy and in
the way.

The long-legged, simple, green, wide-mouthed horse-
laughing young fellow who once made a sea voyage to

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