The notorious crippled gambler, Smithy, figured in it,and it would seem to have furnished the inspiration for the excitingstory in Chapter XXXVI of the Mississippi book. whatwas then a brand-new idea in ocean travel--a splendid picnic--a choiceand refined party that would sail aw lley and thelightning flashes behind the hills beyond, and the rain beats upon theroof over my head, imagine the luxury of it. I cannot bring myself to giveit twice in the same town.
It has brought upon me a lot of ridicule. There could hardly beany other reason. Bythis time the Reverend Fackler himself had been taken. the work that interests them? Walter is a philologist, not an excavator; Ramses is itching to get at those ostraca.
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