Mark Twain Again.
At an evening party in London some little time back :i gushing girl was introduced to Mark Twain.
"Ob, Mr Clemens!" she said. "Now, ploase do tell me 1 I've been thinking of taking up writing, but I am so afraid of that dreadful writer's cramp one hears so much about — did you evei have it 7" "I did. madam." "And what did 3/011 take for it?" " Beefsteak." ".fust fancy ! But how and where did jcu apply it? " " Broiled and internally," said_ Mark Twain gravel}'. " I can't answer for it being a panacea, but it cured the -kind of cramp I had all right."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2317, 28 July 1898, Page 61
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107Mark Twain Again. Otago Witness, Issue 2317, 28 July 1898, Page 61
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