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Clemens, he replied, but I should try to say,'Forgive them, Father, they know not what they do. Each evening he brought down his day's performance to readto the assembled family. At once the pen-name ofCaptain Sellers recurred to him. Zeb Leavenworth fell back into a corner with ayell.

Hartford was aconservative place; the American Publishing Company directors were oforthodox persuasion. other things. But on the l2th the crisis seemedpassed, and the new father wrote a playful letter to the Twichells, ascoming from the late arrival: DEAR UNCLE AND AUNT,--I came into the world on the 7th inst. There is no sense in speculating, or in following them.