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Show MARK TWAIN'S BOYHOOD HOME. There is a two-story frame house in Hannibal, Mo., which it is to the interest of Americans to preserve, says the Rochester Post-Express. In that littlo house Mark Twain spent his boyhood. Everyone Every-one who has read that jewel among boys' 'books, "Tom Sawyer " knows the place. In that house it was that he dosed Aunt Sally's yellow cat, Peter, with pain-killer, and lay on the floor, suffocating with laughter, when the good lady came in to administer prompt castigation. In the alley at one side is the fence which Tom got the village lads to whitewash, luring them thereunto by a diplomacy beyond the reach of ordinary boyhood. Around this house he used to play with "Huck" Finn; the river bar still tempts boys to go and play Indians; the memory of the cave where Injun Joe met his death still lingers. Hannibal has not many places of literary association ; but Jicre is one which the people of this country should cherish. So people will rejoice that George A. Mahan, an attorney, has bought the place, and means to present it to the town. |