. St. Nicholas [serial]. CONCERTS. I, it, whichcomment How Samuel Clemens could have written that,and worse, at twenty-one, and a little more thanten years later have written The InnocentsAbroad is one of the mysteries of letters were signed Snodgrass, and there preserved —the first for which he received a cashreturn. Sam remained in Cincinnati until April of thefollowing year, 1857, working for Wrightson andCompany, general printers, lodging in a cheapboarding-house, saving every possible penny forhis great adventure. He had one associate at the boarding-house, a 216 THE BOYS L
. St. Nicholas [serial]. CONCERTS. I, it, whichcomment How Samuel Clemens could have written that,and worse, at twenty-one, and a little more thanten years later have written The InnocentsAbroad is one of the mysteries of letters were signed Snodgrass, and there preserved —the first for which he received a cashreturn. Sam remained in Cincinnati until April of thefollowing year, 1857, working for Wrightson andCompany, general printers, lodging in a cheapboarding-house, saving every possible penny forhis great adventure. He had one associate at the boarding-house, a 216 THE BOYS LIFE OF MARK TWAIN [Jan., lank, unsmiling Scotchman named Macfarlane,twice young Clemenss age, and a good deal ofa mystery. Sam never could find out what Mac-farlane did. His hands were hardened by somesort of heavy labor—he left at six in the morn-ing and returned in the evening at the same never mentioned his work, and young Clem-ens had the delicacy not to inquire. For Macfarlane was no ordinary person. Fie. ; |1N CKNTEK) WHKRE ORION CLKMFCNS HAD MISPKINTING-OFFICK IN 1856-7, AT KEOKUK, IOWA. was a man of deep knowledge, a reader of manybooks, a thinker; he was versed in history andphilosophy, he knew the dictionary by heart. Hemade but two statements concerning himself:one, that he had acquired his knowledge fromreading, and not at school; the other, that heknew every word in the English dictionary. Hewas willing to give proof of the last, and SamClemens tested him more than once, but foundno word that Macfarlane could not define. Macfarlane was not silent—he would discussreadily enough the deeper problems of life and
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