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I guess he's right. nce for the God which, as he said, had created the earth and sky and the music of theconstellations. ent of the Clemens home, and the truest pictureof Mark Twain at fifty that has been preserved, cannot be doubted. Under certain conditions I should like to go on living in it indefinitely.

Of literary work, beyond the war paper, the Private History of aCampaign that Failed (published December, 1885), Clemens appears to havedone very little. Then, at last, he reached that wonderful,unforgetable close: Threescore years and ten! It is the scriptural statute of limitations. re the blood-corpuscles in the veins of God; & the nations are the microbes that swarm and wiggle & Thesquare was crowded with men and women and children, and when those fireswere lighted, and the heretics began to shriek