MARK TWAIN STORIES
The Mark Twain centenary has recalled to a correspondent _ of ‘ The Times ’ two stories not previously published. Having occasion to visit Troy, when it was the scene of a great gathering of commercial travellers, Mark entered the lift of his hotel with a stranger, whose features seemed somehow familiar. As a friendly overture he said;— "Are you one of this congress?” " Fixing a steely eye upon me,” continued _ Mark, "he said: “Sir! My name is Grant!’ And then I got out of the elevator, 12 floors before _ I wanted to, for fear I should ask him had he ever been in the Army?” At a small dinner party, including Anthony Hope and myself, Hope made some remark upon literature. “I entirely agree with our friend,” said Mark, “ except that I couldn’t state it so moderately myself. The worst of me is I always exaggerate. It is the ohlt way i can approximate to, the truth.” 1
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Evening Star, Issue 22252, 1 February 1936, Page 7
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159MARK TWAIN STORIES Evening Star, Issue 22252, 1 February 1936, Page 7
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