Mark Twain's Boorishness.
Why will Mark Twain persist in wearing his success so ungracefully ? Pew authors owe the public so much as dees he, and yet the simplest request will evoke a churlish, answer or a profane growl. I saw an instance a few days ago. A young New England boy conceived the idea of sending six cards fastened together to as many authors. The boy sent his little miniature album to Dr. Holmes with a request that he would write ' a sentiment ,and an auto graph,' and pass the little book to the nexb in the list of six names given, and that each of the subsequent ones ' please do the same.' The boy's innocence appealed to all the authors who received it. Eacli wrote his name with a polite little ' sentiment.' But Mark Twain determined otherwise. Scrawling his name on one of the cards, he added this sentiment : ' Pass this piece of damned impudence along.' This was the polite instruction to Mrs Stowe, whose name was next on the list. Did Mr Clemens consider this sentiment appropriate to the youthful mind of a boy of 9 years?
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 378, 19 June 1889, Page 3
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189Mark Twain's Boorishness. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 378, 19 June 1889, Page 3
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