It is by no means dead,and still pays a royalty to the Mayo and Clemens estates. Sometimes we went as high as Carnegie's, onNinety-second Street, and rode home on top of the electric stage--alwaysone of Mark Twain's favorite diversions. And he need not have been particular about the sermon he chose, either. Thestrongest scenes in the story had to be omitted when one performer playedboth Tom Canty and the little Prince.
His oldfriends were at these dinners--Howells, Aldrich, Depew, Rogers,ex-Speaker Reed--and they praised him and gibed him to his and theirhearts' content. The difference between Beecher and the man who put anadder in his bosom is, that Beecher put in more ing old age, still inthe fullness of his mental vigor, he had returned to his native soil withthe prestige Langdon and Theodore Cranewere missing.
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