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Show Mark Twain Claimed Big Appetite I not that any partiality be shown on account ac-count of political creed or geograph leal position, but would beg that all the crates be of the same heft" Kan sas City Times. Mark Twain dealt slyly with the emptiness of Introductory seeches and the fullness of his own apetlt-In apetlt-In a letter lent to tin Missouri Ills torlcal society by a relative. Cyril Clemens of Webster tiroves. president of the Mark Twain society. "I was on the point of starting," he wrote, "when a committee requested me to remain here and Introduce Cen Joseph It. Ilnwley (successively editor governor of Connecticut, congressman , and senutor) to a political mass meet Ing. This wis b great surprise to me. for I had supposed the roan was com psratlvely well known. I shall do what I can to blow tbe fog from around bis fame. "Meantime will you kindly see that the portion of your banquet which I should be allowed to consume. If I were present. Is equitably distributed among the public charities of our sev eral state and territories? 1 would |