Part 6 (1/2)

Papa has a peculiar gait we like, it seems just to sute him, but most people do not; he alalks up and down the roo and between each coarse at meals

A lady distantly related to us came to visit us once in those days She came to stay a week, but all our efforts to ot up her anchor and sailed the next , but could not solve the mystery Later we found out what the trouble was It wasup and down between the courses She conceived the idea that I could not stand her society

That word ”Youth,” as the reader has perhaps already guessed, was ently satirical, but also affectionate

I had certain mental and er person than I was

_Froraphy_

Papa is very fond of aniray kitten once that he naray to match his hair and eyes) and he would carry hiray cat sound asleep against papa's gray coat and hair The naiven our different cats, are realy remarkably funny, they are namely Stray Kit, Abner, Motley, Fraeulein, Lazy, Bufalo Bill, Cleveland, Sour Mash, and Pestilence and Famine

At one time when the children were small, we had a very blacknamed Sin pronouns were a difficulty for the children Little Clara canation, and said,

”Papa, Satan ought to be punished She is out there at the greenhouse and there she stays and stays, and his kitten is down-stairs crying”

_Froe, but I have an idea not nearly so strong as when he first maried mamma A lady acquaintance of his is rather apt to interupt what one is saying, and papa told ht he should say to the lady's husband ”I alad your asn't present when the Deity said 'Let there be light'”

It is as I have said before This is a frank historian She doesn't cover up one's deficiencies, but gives the with one's handsomer qualities Of course I made the remark which she has quoted--and even at this distant day I am still as much as half persuaded that if that lady had been present when the Creator said, ”Let there be light,” she would have interrupted Hiraphy_

Papa said the other day, ”I awu this biography of hio to church at all, why I never understood, until just now, he told us the other day that he couldn't bear to hear any one talk but himself, but that he could listen to hi tired, of course he said this in joke, but I've no dought it was founded on truth

MARK TWAIN

(_To be Continued_)

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW

No DCII

NOVEMBER 2, 1906

CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY--V

BY MARK TWAIN

Susy's reo back to it All through the first ten years of my ue while in the house, and went outside and to a distance when circued to seek relief I prized my wife's respect and approval above all the rest of the human race's respect and approval I dreaded the day when she should discover that I was but a whited sepulchre partly freighted with suppressed language I was so careful, during ten years, that I had not a doubt that my suppressions had been successful

Therefore I was quite as happy in uilt as I could have been if I had been innocent

But at last an accident exposedto make my toilet, and carelessly left the door two or three inches ajar It was the first ti it tightly I knew the necessity of being particular about this, because shaving was always a trying ordeal for h to a finish without verbal helps Now this time I was unprotected, but did not suspect it I had no extraordinary trouble with h with s of an i noisy or e