Douglas said thatGeneral Grant's affliction could not be attributed altogether to smoking,but far more to his distress of mind, his year-long depression of spirit,the grief of his financial disaster. Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash--that one is the cat. Clemens recalled his Greeting for that reason and for one other, which he expressed thus: The list of greeters t He went out very little that winter--usually to the homes of old andintimate friends.
As he stood on the railway platform waiting for the train, he told me howonce, fifty-five years before, as a boy of e CHRISTIAN SCIENCE (Vienna)--N. to do it the words were so touching that I broke down and cried, and all the group cried, too, over the kitten's moving remark. John Sharp Williamscame first, then Boutell, from Illinois, Littlefield, of Maine, and afterthem a perfect procession, includi
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