MARK TWAIN

necessaries of life and we have borrowed your perfecting
press. Stanley is here, and Douglas Straight; but Charles
Reade is gone and Tom Hood and Harry Lee, and Canon
Kingsley. Stanley was only the creator of Africa then, the
comrade of kings, the admiration of the world—now he is
G.C.B. In those days you could have carried Kipling
around in his lunch-basket—now he fills the world.

I was young and foolish then—now I am old and
foolisher. My hair was as the lurid crimson of the sun—
now it has paled to the cold gray of the dawn.

These are merely notes that he made for a
speech he was to deliver and did deliver, a day or
two later!

Greeting to 1900

The 20th Century is a stranger to me—I wish it well
but my heart is all for my own century. I took 65 years
of it, just on a risk, but if I had known as much about it
as I know now I would have taken the whole of it.

There are no wild animals till man makes them so.
To the pure all things are impure.

Relief of Mafeking. The news came at 9:17 P.M. Before
ten all London was in the streets gone mad with joy. By
then the news was all over the American continent.

Speech at Lotos

Thank my 95 creditors only one of whom was a Shy-
lock.

Irving Underbill wants to pay me $500—owing seven
years. Cannot allow it. He has had a hard time.

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