Show TWAIN FOND 6 OF F BILG BILLIARDS RD ai biographer has ha told how great humorist would woul d wear out his HI companions at the game november 30 Is mark kwains twains birthday the beloved humorist would have been eighty six on that duy day in 1921 it if lie had lived ills biographer albert bigelow balne in writing of mark trains twains lins passion for playing billiards a hobby which endured to the last comments upon ills great physical rui durance and perpetual youth 1 I was comparatively a young man and by no DO means an invalid mr paine writes but many a time far in the night light when villien I 1 was ready to drop with exhaustion lie was still as fresh and buoyant and enger eager for the game as at the moment of 0 beginning ile he smoked and smoked continually and followed the endless track around the billiard table with the light step of youth at three or four in the morning lie he would urge just one more game and would taunt me for my weariness 1 I can truthfully testify that never until the last year ot of ills life did lie willingly lay down the billiard cue or show the least suggestion of fatigue lie ile played always at high pressure now and then in periods of adversity ver sity he would lly fly into a perfect passion with things in general rut but la in the end it was a sharn sham battle and we vie went on oil playing as it if nothing had happened only he was very gentle and sweet like tile the sun on oil the meadows after the storm had passed by |