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Show Murk Twain Not n I.atlies' Mnn. On one occasion Clemens was standing against a lamp post and holding a cigar box under his arm. Mrs. Capt. Edward Poole, a very beautiful woman, aud as bright and as witty as beautiful, came along and stopped and held out her had, saying: "Why, Mark, where are you going in bucIi a hurry?" "I'm m-o-o-v-i-n-g," drawled Mark, at the same time opening the cigar box, disclosing a pair of blue socks, a pipe and two paper collars. col-lars. Ho had never cared for the ladies, was, in fact, a fish out of water when he happened hap-pened to be near them. While employed on the daily Alta, having secured employment em-ployment there after leaving The Call, he called at a dressmaker's establishment and for ten minutes addressed a wax figure fig-ure of a lady before discovering his mistake. mis-take. Boston Transcript. |