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e memorableafternoon, and reviewed the pranks of those days along the river and inthe cave and on Holliday's Hill. To see him over the billiard-table, five minutes later,one could easily fancy that Mark Twain, as well as the house, had been ,there always. THE JUMPING FROG--book, published by Charles Henry Webb, May 1. I have wondered since what picture ofit he could have had in his mind, for he had never seen a photograph.

Notwithstanding the fact that he was working at Huck with enthusiasm, heseems to have been in no hurry to revise it for publication, either as aserial or as a book. He has been searching into that thing for three weeks and yesterday he said to me: I find the machine to be all you represent it. Perhaps had thePope's Life been issued in this new hour of enlightenment the tale of itssuccess might have been less sadly told. It was years since Huck had been in trouble of that sort, andhe acquired a good deal of newspaper notoriety in consequence.