| Show I I I i m I arm i n it r MARK TWAIN LONG AGO Missouri Memories ol tho Humorist Recalled by an nit Old 2 Chum S Sn SI I n 11 II n 1 n II n 1 SI n n 1 rI n n fl ni fl n 55 nn SI fl n n l LI II It N ti II til S 11 ii it 11 ii It I t P ii It 11 11 I I I r APT H II LACY editor of ot the Wet CAPT C Mountain Tribune edior of Cola Colo was tine In II Macon Mo oio 10 last h I week for or thin tho first time sluice since he ho heran horti ran 11 through there In 1804 as us 11 n ut I postal I k on the pony POl Poll express as ims 18 tim tho Han hiatt Hannibal i tubal and St SI Joe mall mal train Iraln was wan then thon known b ciu e E It connected with lie tho real lIon pony express at al time the latter town Capt Capt apt Lacy Ic aa loom born hor In Hannibal In lui II III 1839 auth was sins a 11 playmate and III later Inter u a fellow printer of or Samuel Saluel L I Clemens a it 1 few fast years younger r Like most mom of Mark Twains early chums chunis etI Lacy never saw the hue Indication of coming 81 In his hiM friend The llie hl worst trouble nb abut ut Sam when he hue a II boy bo saId C 1111 r it T ncy SC RC was Wil cr hU hIs laziness He lie 10 va it 1 a a I dreadful shirk duck When the Iho war tsar canoe ramo on on and mund Ale every everybody oel everybody body bolly watt was Wil taking sides Iule he Ime Joined Thomas A Harris Confederate regi regiment ment lent tint wan wal In a n little light at Flor Ilor Florida ida Monroe county with wih Col oh U LI L S 8 Oranis command was licked Sam SAI came elle home hOle He Ito lo wild he lie belle ed 1 tl the eon Con fed ds H were vere wrong wron because the tue theother other follows t lowI were wele tho the strongest Th Ihu h first thing that called calell my n len lenlon 8 Sam wrIter while out west iou to 10 m an ns a 1 lon was sins his yarn lr about Jim Vs os tomcat which was wan published In Iii II a San Mali Francis FrancisCo co paper halter I recognized re tho the Incident anti and knew there thero th r was else elee out oUI there theia who ho multi could have hll 0 told tol It I Jim was 1118 a 1 printer he hue roomed with Ham who he lie thought was wait the that ever ee lived I ve Ono One night tho the girls of time the house K gee VP It a candy pull pul and a II lot of stick candy was laid lal out on oui Oi the hack back porch to 10 cool IMS he tort fore or pulling The he folks folk were raising high Jinks Sinks downstairs and anti Jims tomcat was out nUl on Oi tho the fence sing chug singing ing luig an In a 0 accompaniment II I nien t fame haul had gone gont to 10 boil II and the tIte rats eats howling annoyed him Ho lie 1 toll told tolt Jim to t drive the thA cult cat away aWI Jim would II ha UP VI committed If It Sam had bind told toil him to I and a I taking the this trouble to dr SK he hue limbed out on the trellis Intending to 10 make connections with wih tIlt th e Hut the Iho th u i trellis trIM was wn fragile and Ind JIm Jm was wan a mu good goo I healthy boy The thing gave way with witha wih a to crash croci auth poor or Jim was precipitated lIke Ilko Iko a 1 chunk out nut of ot n a meteor on 01 that mainly candy ranI He lie 10 gave a n shriek that brought nil all ni 1110 the boys girls IIII out omit alI on out 01 the porch cult and the Iho thu o landlady iii nil l thy y kindly ki by etched I u in p Jim Jint wan ices never leel n tu I very elY pretty boy bo hut but ho hun nt nl that flint ironist nt everybody thought the Ihl swe te t t lg on oIl earth for tor forthe the tho th cnn can candy lv y ro co ered him hll Tile The accident broke brok up UI UI lit hp K parly In everybody bin mod Sam Stint for tor It I Well Vl Wol ho tones e I up 1 that yarn In n a nw avay w WAY vay y that made It even CV er sr than It was WIS lus and then titan I J knew tl th flu reles fun tun loving lad hud hind struck hK hf hu t that he hue was really rood goad for tor something A trump printer named blow blew Into Inlo HannIbal one day cIlI anti and was smuts Wil given Rhel work on the tue paper Jl PI I Ho Ito was smuts an atu ni ll fort por of o follow but a it 1 good oO I worker Ild obedient I Soot flam derided 1 to 10 bring him hll out olt of ot lila his arid ami 1111 to do tio It I borrowed a n skeleton sl oh eton Iton from a I doctors or e slipped It I Into the lie printers hell bed Then wo we 10 gd to 10 a I window ow about 1110 to towe toIe we fiM Ie what stan going to happen The printer pulled off or his hi h I e shoso shoel pil piled ed iii I his lil clothes cothel over oer on oti ni the Iho floor and mutt blew out the tue light The next thing we e supposed would bo ito H to I yell tl iund nd a n printer shooting out of tho th window 1 ld O In his hil night nightshirt shirt But ut there anything of ot thin the sort ort There Theao wan I a sleepy yawn anti let Ut oser on your 11 own durn you We heard the ghastly ty of Knell tall fall to the tho floor and then thou tal tutu every everything eel I thing I was quiet except xcell for tor thin tho aitor snoring log ing of the electIng le r printer The Tl joke jofto jolo had tailed d annul and we WI went up 1111 to 10 our j rooms In disgust dl Next Snail Snell 1111 show ii up 11 and I we began begon to In it fir fel re I 1 a n little hopeful that I the trek ret lund had worked after nil nih lit nt we tier W g n ill iii I pointed Snail wa sva 1 In lo I n a 1 P In 1 I I ni drunk anti and K g the hue tm of ot lila his life Killer K 1 l Il r man mall crall oh c i 1 r tI InJun mi U ii hn hir jelled al u ii shell OH to in itt I fer tr dollar lur nn an it five Wow w He lie hint had rolled the th skeleton up ill In 1 it I sheet and ond soil old It to another doctor New Now York Sun u |
