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...perhaps be pardoned for being a bit partial to him. Therefore he is quite sorry for anyone who has missed Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn from his cradle side, and almost as regretful over a lost soul who has failed to try "Life on the Mississippi" or "A Tramp Abroad" for his later and more travelsome years. Perhaps these unfortunates may be redeemed from the pulpit of Sever 11. But it is more likely that Professor Murdock will concern himself with the later years of Mark Twain's life, for post mortem critics have discovered the many bitter pills under...
...with drooping moustaches. He wears: baggy trousers, blue workman's shirt, a blue sweater. A poor boy, he had to earn his own living when he was nine; he has been worker in a bootshop, apprentice to a mechanical draughtsman, cook's assistant, lawyer's clerk, tramp, laborer, baker. Once he tried to commit suicide; the bullet is still in his body. Though he took no part in the Revolution, for he believed the masses were not ready for it, he is in good standing with the Soviet Government and last summer was made member...
...henceforth. His college days must have prefigured the rest of his strange life. After he was graduated his Smiths made him a fat allowance, but he was a queer lad, he was. He wore out the patience of his patrons. They cast him off. He became a sort of tramp. He tried his fortune in mining camps, in New York buoket shops, in the Chicago grain market. He even haunted, as his chaste Cambridge biographer puts it, "sections of Philadelphia which did him no good." After the death of James Smith his widow offered to let bygones be bygones. 'Pifex...
...befuddled flower of Megntzu together, bundled them off to the railroad station, piled them aboard a train which chuffed off 200 miles inland to the end of the line. Cold sober now, the District Magistrate, the Garrison Commander, the Wireless Director and all their friends were forced to tramp over hard frozen roads to a cave high in the mountains. For their release the wily bandit of Megntzu demanded not one but four camel-loads of silver from the families of his guests...
...rooming in the new dormitories. In some quarters the failure of the Faculty teas may be construed as an excellent barometer for the reception of faculty color by the men down on the river. However, there may be justification in the theory that it is infinitely less agreeable to tramp through the slushy environs of Cambridge to the Union than to play the role of willing auditor before the blazing long-fire of the House common-room...