THE LATE MARK TWAIN
THE HUMORIST'S LAST HOURS. JOKING TO THE END. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. New York, April 22. Mark Twain, despite his 'Weakness, asked for a writing-pad and his spectacles, and wrote a cheque for 6000 dollars in favor of the Reading "Mark Twain" library. He continued joking with the nurses and doctors, despite acute angina and cardiac asthma. He held up a Irayed cigar, saying: "It's only two in the afternoon, vet here's the third of the four smokes I am allowed daily, and for years I've been" having forty. I would like to sit here and saio&e lor ever." H? necame unconscious at three o'clock: '*">.- Messrs. Harper Bros., «\|ark Twain's publishers, estimate that his fortune will exceed a million dollars. Practically all of it is bequeathed to his daughter.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 372, 25 April 1910, Page 5
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132THE LATE MARK TWAIN Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 372, 25 April 1910, Page 5
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