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On the morning of January 4th ReverendFackler's services were again required. He stopped only long enough in New York to see Charles Henry Webb, lateof California, who had put together a number of the Mark Twain sketches,including The Jumping Frog, for book publication. Once, to Robert Louis Stevenson, he said: Aldrich has never had his peer for prompt and pithy and witty and humorous sayings. Not to mention that hysterical boy and his entourage.

It was awful low-down in Dan. We did not take the animals into the cemetery. We have done all we can for the present, said Emerson firmly. Some of them were in on the secret; grinning and jumping with excitement, they helped Daoud clear the