CHAPTER XIII

Notes, Literary and Otherwise

Nov. 23, 1877. First note made of The Prince and the
Pauper.

Edward VI and a little pauper exchange places by
accident a day or so before Henry VIIPs death. The
Prince wanders in rags and hardships and the pauper
suffers the (to him) horrible miseries of princedom, up
to the moment of crowning in Westminster Abbey, when
proof is brought and the mistake rectified.

A man sent to superintend a private madhouse takes
charge of a sane household by mistake. It is in England
and when they call him the "keeper" they do so because
they think he is the new gamekeeper, who by mistake is
now in charge of the maniacs in the other house, and
vastly perplexed too.

Dion Boucicualt, the dramatist, gave me this idea and
told me to use it.

Publish scraps from my autobiography occasionally.

March 20, Twichell, at the farewell Pentecost meeting
yesterday, urged people to keep on going to church—
"We can't give you such preaching, but you can come,
nevertheless, and take what God can give you through us
(the local preachers), remembering that half a loaf is
better than no bread. You know that the ravens brought
food to Elijah, and when he got it, it was as nutritious
as if it had been brought by a finer bird."

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