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as doing, letDanbury appear in the offing and he was observed and greeted with duedeference, and complimented and made comfortable. Itseemed dangerous to trifle with an apparently increasing prosperity, andClemens was willing enough to agree with this view. CAPTAIN WAKEMAN'S (STORMFIELD'S) VISIT TO HEAVEN (San Francisco),published Harper's Magazine, December, 1907-January, 1908 (also book,Harpers). As to the charge ofunfair dealing on the part of Mark Twain, this was too absurd, even then,to attract more than momentary attention.

Riggs knows how to do that sort ofthing. As far back as Revolutionary daysJoel Barlow, a poet of distinction, and once Minister to France, had beena resident of Redding, and there were still Barlow descendants in thetownship. Theyleft Elmira on the night of the 14th of July. So Clemens came to know the old chronicler's version of the rare RoundTable legends, and from that first acquaintance with them to the lastdays of his life seldom let the book go far from him.