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)Notes for the Jumping Frog story; Angel's Camp, February. The papers would get hold of it, and I would have to makespeeches and be interviewed, and I never want to do any of those thingsagain. I saw only that crown of white hair,that familiar profile, and heard the slow modulations of his measuredspeech. Howells tells of Mark Twain's triumph on this occasion, and in a letterat the time he wrote: You sim

Suppose you remove a drop of it? Is what is left an individual? Yes, and so is the drop. Later, in the cab, he said: That was a mighty good dinner. But we hear nomore of this project. ain had curled himself up in the big arm-chair, and I was smoking reverently, as befits one in the presence of his superior.