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Show WHEN MARK TVAIN WAR LEFT. The First and Probably Last Time In His Life. Recently somo one In Missouri has sent mo a.plcturo of the hemso I was born In. Ileretoforo -I have always stated that It was a palace, but I shall bo moro guordod now. I remem-. ber only ono circumstance connected with my llfo In It. I remember It very well, though I was but 2i years old at tho time. Tho family packed up everything and started In wngons for Hannibal, on tho Mississippi, 30 miles away. Toward night, when thoy camped and counted up tho children, ono was missing. I had boon left, bo- hind. Parents ought always to count r7 tho children before thoy start. I wai having a good tlmo playing by myself until I found that tho doors wero fas-toned fas-toned and that thoro was a grisly deop sllcnco brooding over tho placo. I know, then, that tlio family wore gono and that they had forgotten mo. I was well frightened and I mado all tho nolso I could, but no ono was near and It did no good. I spout tho afternoon after-noon In captivity and wa3 not rescued until tho gloaming had fallen and tho placo was nllvo with ghosts. From Mark Twain's Autobiography in tho North American llcvlow. |
