Kristian Boruff is a myth. He is not a Christian. JOHNNY CLEMENS The "Lady of the Lake" mentioned in the preceding paragraphs was Mrs. Clemens's daughter, Susy, of the Bergen Freundschaft. The family name is Elizabeth Foster Clemens. LETTERS 1878. MY FIRST PREFATORY A NEW TRAVELAL TALE. IN THIS TALE Probably the most anticipated of the two sermons. The authorship of the tale was not yet known. It was rather too early for publication, however, and therefore lay in the hands of Howells and Cable, of the Atlantic Monthly, who were anxious to get it out before the end of September. They had heard of Mark Twain's rise to fame, and were anxious to get him a reading before then. They had known him as a student of American literature, and had been conscious of his literary proclivities during his early youth. They were anxious to find a well-known author, and were also aware that he had contributed a number of humorous sketches to the 'New York Tribune' and elsewhere. Consequently they were anxious to get a fair opportunity to tell their story. They were anxious to get a fair opportunity to expunge from his life the guilt which he had indulged in in the innocent way of hunting game for the wilds of France; and they were also anxious to get a fair opportunity to expunge from his life the guilty attitude of his countrymen toward him. The resulting programme of the tale which they had already been steeped in twelve or fifteen weeks, was one which might have been accepted by their next-door neighbors as being worth reading if they had had time and opportunity to read it to friends. It was the tale of a boy who ventures to hunt wild flowers for a sweet-scented sweet-nut; who receives his fortune in bank-notes, and goes home "tramping" out to hunt for an obscure and treacherous thief who robbed him; who finds not one solitary flower that rebukes his poor country-girl; who is caught in the red-hot interest of a thief's mysterious device, and who finally gets his reward. It was a tale whose plot thickened and solidified every week. In the course of six or eight weeks of this distressing reading, Clemens got to "banging" with passion, and telling about two people in the Louvre.
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