Show Where ere Clemens Obtained His Hist t Backgrounds i ithe It t was vas in the experience o of his lIs lIsI his his' I that Samuel Clemens th n called Sam obtained obtained the tho background back back- ground ground- round for Huck Finn and Tom nor could 1 he e havo hao el Ct 6 nor d II I a better place The old home homo feto which hla Ma family moved mo when Mark Maik was a aI al alad ha now been presented to the l lad d I has etY ctr and in it have han been collected some isome of the mementos of the au- au hors hor's Ufe life In one corner hangs the chair It has been hung to pr protect from wear car by those who insist upon Occupying v the mans man's throne although al- al hOUgh though could not wi wield ld his lI scepter on the wall hang letters he e wrote and interspersed between them hem are photographs and sketches or of himself and of early landmarks Ibn On the tho floor lies an old carpet brought from his later home in the thelast last ast It its tattered remains barely waring the rough pine boards At Atone one ne side is s the black hulk of a coa coal tove e and directly across from it is' is is t the 10 e closet from which Sam may ave lae stolen his mothers mother's Jam and jelly The entire building poses Inar in r a h e attitude as though It Ittin tin h heard ard the tho din and hue of boys throughout its rooms tOut Out In the backyard backard the wooden I light of ot stairs which supplies an entrance to the second story has hasuly only uly grown more dusky through the years ears It leads to a flat roof over overa a shed and th then n Into Sams Sam's bedr bedrOom bed- bed r rOom om where from his window he once enJo enjoyed ed the spectacle of ot watching Jinx JIm Wolf Volt participate in a comedy comedy cero The two boys were Jalone alone down in the Sams Sam's sis- sis it fT was entertaining her girl friends with a taffy pull out on the fence two wo cats were and spitIng spit spit- Ing Jim Wolf Volt seeing seeing- the cats d t d d to fUn fling them off the thence fence nce and crept out across the root roof l n bare feet and his scant night at at- fre At each step he pressed his heel firmly into the roof snow but butas butas gs as as he approached the end he mis- mis the calculated the snow had thawed slightly and turned to Ice When hIs heel met that unresisting sur- sur ace aca he he lost his foothold slipped sUpped nd landed among the taffy pans and shrieking girls below The cats fled fed scandalized as the girls and when hen Jim Jun finally returned io to the upstairs room he found Sam in of laughter I thought do It it t Sam remarked remark d casual casual- Uy rc but I 1 didn't realize you ou expected ex- ex to do it in such a a dram dramatic manner Such is the back entrance entrance-a. a dra dra- thing in Itself Itself and and by simply over a fence walking I uong tho the roof loof of ot a lumber yal-d yal and dropping easily to the tho ground gr und a hundred f- f fet f.-et et along you ou reach the hey fley which led to Huck Finn Al- Al Although though hough Huck was aas was th the bad boy of ot the ie no Mark Hark I known kown him and an frequented his hisH taUnts ll H te HI might even have flave clambered clambered clam- clam t tie the f nee nce to elude hU his mothers mother's watchful eye nf Sam was full of pranks pranks pranks-In In school anything e ex ex- ex h j cared nothing for tor eDt spelling Yet in that ho hewon won l e medal week after week and even graded faded it with the tho boy who wore the he good conduct medal Once titter after h foe he- had been In school only a a. few Hays ays he heVa Va was sentenced to a whip whip- l ng anti and commanded command d' d to fetch a aItch witch switch from out ont of ot doors San proceeded pro pro- as ordered but when he reached the school steps I he was j by bv an enormous problem lem all m-all all the forest stretched away him a all 11 the sticks sUcks were too l Urge rge and hea heavY y all aU th the switches appeared to dangerous Across the theay way ay however was a lumber mill milland arid and Pd when Sam returned he laid a al alean l lean an and limber shaving on the I eachers eacher's desk That did not excuse ex- ex use cuse him for another bo boy was sent sentor for or a switch and so BO effective was wasI I the he that when Sam rei retUrned returned re- re i turned home that noon he told hIs ms I other lother he didn't like school Heas lie He lieas as as sent back nevertheless for Mrs Clemens lemons found him enough I generally Ha Hi drives me razy crazy with his when he Is InI ine in inthe she admitted and I the e house once when he is out of it I am ant expecting W will bring him any minute they home half dead One day indeed home from a Sam was carried drowning scene in which ho he nearly nearly- I lost his life one of tw two escapes which he later Increased to nine but hut she insisted firmly People orn orn to be hanged are safe in the tue Water fater Yet one more portion of or Mark Twains wain's life lite remains to be explored the f the cave two miles south of or town Is ta s opening beneath a sycamore wooden gate to ow fenced with a a. Prevent explorers becoming becom becom- becoming ing lost Discovered a hundred years ears ago the cave has not yet been its recesses and explored Its explored Caverns caverns alcoves and corridors are Innumerable but a guide is pro- pro Vided who enjoys pointing o oyt ott t the I interesting portions and who wilo has Jaken aken so many through tha that theran the ran rail shows clearly by the drippings from the candles candle K The high dark Cavern roofs the tho shifting moving shadows the sil silhouettes nil nil- which quiver back and forth no wonder the cave became the rendezvous for Tom Ton Sawyer andt and lark Mark Twain and no w that In t It bravely prick aI a. a they could l so I I finger nger to write their their- name in blood I below the oath of allegiance to the l Il gang ng 1 11 l Pt it was twilight t hen when we returned To o the entrance entrance twilight r which reached Cave Hollow and settled i t too o Upon that bronze facsimile or of off orI orthe I f the great author which stands InI Inthe in I the tho park on the tho river three miles from rom the case The statue has a i rood good od place a great vista lays before t a panorama dotted with Islands known Mark Twain th the o 0 well by Mississippi far Below the bluff rolling rolling roll roll- ing along endlessly incapable of appreciating human life Ufe with bot- bot lands turning color throng th the the- and with long lanes of or oro w o 0 d 1 av d 2 whispering exotic thought hoUght from da day to day Mark Twain wain has been placed wh re he may b se e all that where he ho may Paint j it again with his pencil but I wonder If H he ho does doe not leave lewe the bronze cast at ut night to revisit re the cave and its weird ghosts I. I And AndY perhaps lie ho meets th there re at midnight t r rendezvous Tom rom Sawyer aWyer and Huck Kinn for tor a a. talk of oC tho old times times' when they thy were ere bo boys of t f the tho and members of or the Black gang ang Avenger p of ot the Spanish I Wyman Wyma l Smith Smith- in th the D In- In d it J iw-J pl f 1 k 1 4 |