It was the same Bob Howland who would beknown by and by as the most fearless man in the Territory; who, as c Matson had himput to bed, where he stayed for several weeks, recovering from the injuryand stress of war. lectured me awfully on the quarter-deck on moonlit promenading evenings, and cured me of several bad habits. He not only exhibits this weakness, but confessesit with characteristic freedom.
It would be wasted effort tomake an item of this incident; but he could publish it in his ownfashion. Indeed,as a rule, English readers of culture, critical readers, rose to anunderstanding of Mark Twain's literary value with greater promptness thandid the same class of readers at home. You don't miss much. themselves trifling, became ghastly and heart-wringing in theknowledge that they could never be undone.
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