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Show Mark Twain and T. R. Augustus Thomas, the playwright, kept the mirth alive with story after Btory. One had reference to a game In which the players, so Mr. Thomas said, were Colonel Roosevelt, the late Mark Twain and himself. "In the course of the game Colonel Roosevelt talked much of war," said : Mr. Thomas. "And I remember him turning to Mark Twain and asking him if it were true that the bravest men were nervous when they faced the enemy, and Mark Twain, being an old confederate soldier, replied: 'Yes, that is quite true, for I remember remem-ber vividly to this day that I had the quality of maintaining it alK khrough the engagement.' " New fork Sun. ' |