MARK TWAIN

Whence these knives and other metal things? Well, they
arc found in the egg of wawhawp—so the children'often
hunt for nests of this imaginary bird.

She must speak of one young girl who is an idiot and
who is now 80 years old. She visits her husband's clear-
ice grave after 30 years and finds him fresh and young,
while she is old and gray.

A typical Mark Twain idea of the more fan-
tastic sort—too fantastic, perhaps, to be under-
taken, even by him, for we hear no more of it.

People in trying to justify Kternity say we can put it
in learning all the knowledge acquired by the inhabitants
of the myriads of stars. We shan't need that. We could
use up two Kternitics in learning all that is to be learned
about onr own world and the thousands of nations that
have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathe-
matics alone would occupy me eight million years.

August 12—I think we are only the microscopic trichina
concealed in the blood of some vast creature's veins, and
it is that vast creature whom Gotl concerns Himself about
and not us.

I lose my temper over a certain class of business (beg-
ging) letters, except when they come from colored (and
therefore ignorant) people. Mrs. Clemens suggests that I
adopt as a motto: "Consider everybody colored till he is
proved white."

Jewell (of Hartford) said the church would trust me to
take up a collection—with a bell punch.

On a wager I once started to ride from Virginia City to
San F., in stage with several women and girls, I to play
deaf and dumb. Got out early. Lost the bet.

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