"HEAD IT!"
There is a good story about Mark Twain and the American novelist the late George W. Cable, told in "Scribner'g Magazine" by Mr. William Lyon Phelps. He says:—"lt was in the early eighties when Cable invaded the North. He was to deliver an address in Unity Hall, Hartford, and on the stage I saw with him Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, and other notables. Mark Twain made so felicitous an introduction that when Cable stood up to speak the applause was deafening. But the modest Southerner was smitten with stage fright to so dreadful a degree that he could not utter a word. He looked at the audience, tried several times to open his mouth, but was like a man paralysed. It was an embarrassing spectacle, and I cannot imagine what would .have happened if Mark Twain had not come to the rescue. Perceiving that Cable could not talk, anH could not draw, although he had a blackboard at hand, Mark Twain sprang to his feet, seized one of Cable's books that lay on the table, opened it at a certain chapter, thrust it into the lecturer's hand, and said, 'Read it!' "
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 118, 14 November 1925, Page 17
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"HEAD IT!"
Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 118, 14 November 1925, Page 17
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