Mark Took a Walk.
When Mark Twain lived in Hartford. Conn., >he was on intimate t-erms with the Key. Joseph H. Twitchell. One day Mr Twitchell sauntered over to his friend's house and said. "Mark, come and take a walk with me." "Oh, no, Joe; I haven't time," said the humourist. "Well, now," sail the dominie, "you come to bear me pieaoh evsry Sunday and you say you believe what I reai out of the Bible is true. If I could prove to you, from the Bible, that you ought to go and walk with ma, v/ouli you go?" "~sTss, of course." said Mr Twain; "butit isn't in there." "Yes, it is,"' said the minister; "for the Bible says, 'And whosoever shall compel thetf to go a mile, go with him twain.' " And Mark went.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2675, 21 June 1905, Page 87
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Mark Took a Walk.
Otago Witness, Issue 2675, 21 June 1905, Page 87
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