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By and by ArtemusWard turned up in San Francisco, and one night Mark Twain told him hisexperiences with Jim Gillis, and in Angel's Camp; also of Ben Coon andhis tale of the Calaveras frog. It should be said here that there is not the least evidence (and themanuscripts are full of evidence) that Mrs. Perhaps you can catch the old lady in one of her senile moods, Nefret suggested. An election had taken place during his absence--an election whichgratified him deeply, for it had resulted in the second

The idea was a disturbing one. Hmph, said Emerson. He was looking at the hill, where the crumbling remains of small brick pyramids and little chapels marked the site of the village cemetery. The rest of us will wear the usual rags.