. St. Nicholas [serial]. theKnobs of Tennessee to Missouri and the im-portant part in that story played by the Tennes-see land. Mark Twain wrote those chapters, andwhile they are not history, but fiction, they are 4 THE BOYS LIFE OF MARK TWAIN [Nov., based upon fact, and the picture they present offamily hardship and struggle is not character of Colonel Sellers, who gave theHazikinses a grand welcome to their new home,was also real. In life he was James Lampton,cousin to Mrs. Clemens, a gentle and radiantmerchant of dreams, who believed himself heirto an English earldom and was al
. St. Nicholas [serial]. theKnobs of Tennessee to Missouri and the im-portant part in that story played by the Tennes-see land. Mark Twain wrote those chapters, andwhile they are not history, but fiction, they are 4 THE BOYS LIFE OF MARK TWAIN [Nov., based upon fact, and the picture they present offamily hardship and struggle is not character of Colonel Sellers, who gave theHazikinses a grand welcome to their new home,was also real. In life he was James Lampton,cousin to Mrs. Clemens, a gentle and radiantmerchant of dreams, who believed himself heirto an English earldom and was always on theverge of colossal fortune. With others of the The next thing was to find a home. Therewere twenty-one houses in Florida, and none ofthem large. The one selected by John and JaneClemens had two main rooms and a lean-to kit-chen—a small place and lowly—the kind of aplace that so often has seen the beginning of ex-alted lives. Christianity began with a babe in amanger; Shakspere first saw the light in a cot-. JOHN CLEMKNS AND HIS FAMILY ON Till-: WAV FKOM EASTEKNTENNESSEE TO EASTERN MISSOURI, IN 1835. Lampton kin, he was already settled in Missouriand had written back glowing accounts, thoughperhaps not more glowing than those which hadcome from another relative, John Quarles,brolher-in-law to Mrs. Clemens, a jovial, whole-hearted optimist, well loved 1)y all who knewhim. It was a June evening when the Clemens fam-ily with the barouche and the two outridersfinally arrived in Florida, and the place no doubtseemed attractive enough then, however it mayhave appeared later. It was the end of a longjourney; relatives gathered with fond welcome;prospects seemed bright. Already John Quarleshad opened a general store in the little , he said, was certain to become a River would be made navigable with a seriesof locks and dams. He offered John Clemens apartnership in his business. Quarles, for that time and place, was a richman. Besides his store he had
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