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Title: Mark Twain : a biography : the personal and literary life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Paine, Albert Bigelow, 1861-1937 Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 Humorists, American Authors, American Journalists
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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redoniahad delivered their contributions, and Orion and his wifein Keokuk had sent the annual sack of hickory-nuts (thebig river-bottom nuts, big as a silver dollar almost, suchnuts as few children of this later generation ever see)—when all this happy revenue had been gathered, and thedusk of Christmas Eve had hurried the children off tobed, it was Mrs. Clemens who superintended the dress-ing of the tree, her husband assisting, with a willingnessthat was greater than his skill, and with a boys anticipa-tion in the surprise of it next morning. Then followed the holidays, with parties and dances andcharades, and little plays, with the Warner and Twichellchildren. To the Clemens home the Christmas seasonbrought all the old round of juvenile happiness—thespirit of kindly giving, the brightness and the merry-making, the gladness and tenderness and mystery thatbelong to no other season, and have been handed downthrough all the ages since shepherds watched on theplains of Bethlehem. 698
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ONE VIEW OF THE HARTFORD HOUSE CXXXIII THE THREE FIRES—SOME BENEFACTIONS THE tradition that fires occur in groups of three wasjustified in the Clemens household that winter.On each of three successive days flames started thatmight have led to ghastly results. The children were croupy, and one morning an alcohollamp near little Claras bed, blown by the draught, setfire to the canopy. Rosa, the nurse, entered just as theblaze was well started. She did not lose her presence ofmind,1 but snatched the little girl out of danger, thenopened the window and threw the burning bedding onthe lawn. The child was only slightly scorched, but theescape was narrow enough. Next day little Jean was lying asleep in her crib, infront of an open wood fire, carefully protected by a fire-screen, when a spark, by some ingenuity, managed to getthrough the mesh of the screen and land on the cribslace covering. Jeans nurse, Julia, arrived to find the lacea gust of name and the fire spreading. She grabbed thesl

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