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Show h Mark Twain's Introduction. (Brooklyn Eagle.) I Mark Twain has lived in New York long enough ts vole, and he says that he IntPiids to try to elect Seth Low. When a Tammany man heard the news he said It reminded him of a story which Mark Twain once told on himself. The humorist hu-morist was dining with a literary club in London, one of whose customs was that the members must introduce their J guests formally and in set phrases to the company. This custom pleased him. and when his turn came to express his pleas- ure at being present he referred to it. 1 "I like it." he drawled, "for it reminds me of a time I lectured in a little town ' in the Rockies. My chairman was a well-to-do 'cow puncher,' who found the situation evidently irksome. 'I'm told I must introduce this yer man t'ye boys,' he said, 'but 1 can only see two things I in his favor. One is that he's never been J In jail, and the other is that I don't know why,' and then he sat down." |