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Show Where Mark Twain Had Gone. When Mark Twuln was working hard on ono of his earlier books that brought him famo ho soiled for Europe Eu-rope with his family. He kept up his writing on shipboard, loavlng It only for brief recreations. One day an approaching ap-proaching storm drovo him to tho cabin, and as ho rotlred to work ho loft word with his daughter, then a very llttlo girl, to explain bis absence. "If they ttBk for me,"' ho said to her, "say that I won't bo long; I havo only gone to wrlto an nnocdote." A little lator a passenger accosted tho child: "Whero has your fathor gono7" "He won't bo gono long," lisped the child; "ho'th only going to rldo a nanny-goat." |