MARK TWAIN

Man has been called the laughing animal, to distinguish
him from the others, but the monkey laughs and he has
been called the animal that weeps—but several of the
others do that. Man is merely and exclusively the Im-
modest Animal, for he is the only one who covers his
nakedness, the only one with a soiled mind, the only one
under the dominion of a false shame.

Sunday morning: Six or eight people who came over
with me in the Paris—three or four of them went up to
London with our multimillionaire, to be shown his glory.
It was a month ago; but to this day these men can think
of nothing else, talk of nothing else. They are as happy
and stunned and blessed as if they had been to heaven and
dined with God.

Clara says it tires her to have to keep on deciding that
she isn't sick, so persistently and so watchfully.

New York, May 18, 1895. Noon. Arrived at 9. Cable
from London says that Tichborne Claimant has published
an affidavit confessing that he is Arthur Orton, son of a
Wapping Butcher. I was in London twenty or twenty-two
years ago, during his trial for perjury, and spent an
evening in his society with a number of his devoted ad-
herents. He had a marvelous memory. He played his part
well. He was sent up for fourteen years; served his term,
then came over here and was a bartender in the Bowery.

Jean's comment on the Emperor of Germany's dinner
invitation: "Papa, the way things are going, pretty soon
there won't be anybody left for you to get acquainted with
but God."

Master Mechanic on the L road who said: "You are
enough like Mark Twain to be his brother."

Elmira, May 24, 1895. Terms offered to Pond: He to
have one-fourth of the profits outside Frisco and one-
fifth inside Frisco. He to lecture me there six consecutive
nights and three matin6es, all in the same week.

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