Eye openers [electronic resource]: good things, immensely funny sayings and stories that will bring a smile upon the gruffest countenance . A MEMORY. YT7HEN I say that I never knew raj» » austere father to be enamoured of butone poem in all the long half-century that helived, persons who knew him will easily be-lieve me; when I say that I have nevercomposed but one poem in all the long thirdof a century that I have lived, persons whoknow me will be sincerely grateful; andfinally, when I say that the poem which Icomposed was not the one which my fatherwas enamoured of, persons who may haveknown
Eye openers [electronic resource]: good things, immensely funny sayings and stories that will bring a smile upon the gruffest countenance . A MEMORY. YT7HEN I say that I never knew raj» » austere father to be enamoured of butone poem in all the long half-century that helived, persons who knew him will easily be-lieve me; when I say that I have nevercomposed but one poem in all the long thirdof a century that I have lived, persons whoknow me will be sincerely grateful; andfinally, when I say that the poem which Icomposed was not the one which my fatherwas enamoured of, persons who may haveknown us both will not need to have this truthshot into them with a mountain howitzeibefore they can receive it. My father and 1were always on the most distant terms when Iwas a boy—a sort of armed neutrality, so toepeak. At irregular intervals this neutralitywas broken, and suffering ensued; but I willbe candid enough to say that the breaking andthe suffering were always divided up withstrict impartiality between us—whlcL is to say,my father did the breaking, and 1 did the 72 MARE TWAIN. Buffering. As a general thing I was a back-w
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