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by Mark Twain


  "Injun Joe," "Jimmy Finn," and "General Gaines" were prominent and very intemperate ne'er-do-weels in Hannibal two generations ago. Plenty of grayheads there remember them to this day, and can tell you about them. Isn't it curious that two "town drunkards" and one half-breed loafer should leave behind them, in a remote Missourian village, a fame a hundred times greater and several hundred times more particularized in the matter of definite facts than Shakespeare left behind him in the village where he had lived the half of his lifetime?

  Mark Twain.

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  The Marquess of Worcester had done all of this more than a century earlier.

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  Katy Leary, who had been in the service of the Clemens family for twenty-nine years.

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  Mr. Gabrilowitsch had been operated on for appendicitis.

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  Summer of 1899.

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  Four fathoms—twenty-four feet.

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  From Chapter XIII of THE SHAKESPEARE PROBLEM RESTATED. By George G. Greenwood, M.P. John Lane Company, publishers.

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