A golden age of authors : a publisher's recollection . some peoplewho did and he made up Rudder Grange out ofwhat might have happened to them. It has alwaysseemed to me that Rudder Grange was an ex-ample of perfect humor, at least if the faculty ofgetting enjoyment from it by repeated readings isa test. Pomonas I was a-lookin at the moon,sir, when pop! the chair bounced, and out I wentis as funny to me now as it was when I read it forthe first time. And the reading aloud of that remark-able serving-maid — Ha, ha! Lord Mar montthun der ed. *My conscience! said I to Eu-phemia, * cant that girl b
A golden age of authors : a publisher's recollection . some peoplewho did and he made up Rudder Grange out ofwhat might have happened to them. It has alwaysseemed to me that Rudder Grange was an ex-ample of perfect humor, at least if the faculty ofgetting enjoyment from it by repeated readings isa test. Pomonas I was a-lookin at the moon,sir, when pop! the chair bounced, and out I wentis as funny to me now as it was when I read it forthe first time. And the reading aloud of that remark-able serving-maid — Ha, ha! Lord Mar montthun der ed. *My conscience! said I to Eu-phemia, * cant that girl be stopped? As may be imagined from his works, Frank Stock-ton was a man of great sweetness, full of lovablequalities. He was slightly lame and never seemed tobe in very good health, and it was a great delightto him and to Mrs. Stockton to go away on frequenttrips to Nassau or to Europe, and to write uptheir experiences. He looked at life in a beautifulway; he was kind and every one was kind to him,and he gathered only flowers as he went along. [30]. WILLIAM CAREY Stocktons most famous story was The Lady, orthe Tiger? which appeared in The Century forNovember, 1882. Heaven knows how many lan-guages it has been translated into and how manysolutions of the puzzle have been offered. Stocktonhimself never made or wanted to make a solution— he was satisfied to write the story. Its success wasperhaps helped by the title, and for that Will Carey,of The Century editorial room, was had called it The Kings Arena and hadgone away to Europe leaving it to be editors cabled asking permission to change thename to Careys suggested title, The Lady, or theTiger? William Carey was a very clever young man whodied in his early forties — more than clever; MarkTwain called him the wittiest man he ever was a little inclined to stoutness, which usuallymakes for good humor, but not necessarily for had a face that always wore a smile, and heknew ever
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