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You should not worry the reader with uncertainties like that. Clemens, as was his habit, had taken a work-room in a separate cottage in the house of a friend and neighbor, a fisherman and a boatma It would be near the end of April before I should see himagain. CLXVIIIINTRODUCING NYE AND RILEY AND OTHERSIt was the winter (1888-89) that the Bill Nye and James Whitcomb Rileyentertainment combination set out on its travels.

I read it again a year or two ago, for some reason, and was amazed to see how tame it had become. Clemens wrote somearticles, did some translating of German plays, and worked on his Gospel, an elaboratio In its way it stands alone in my life's experience. The house was on fire.