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instead ofdiminishing, until, by the beginning of 1890, Clemens was finding italmost impossible to raise funds to continue the work. His disbelief and his pessimismwere identical in their structure. I have a family to support, & I can't afford this kind of dissipation. But that was a mistake, for the next thing they knew there came a greatice-sheet, and those creatures all escape

It is amazingly truthful in thecharacter-picture it represents of the man himself. The music of the evening that followed, with Gabrilowitsch at the pianoand David Bispham to sing, was something not likely ever to be repeated. Fields, getting uneasy, rose, buthe wouldn't go--& so we rattled ahead the same as ever. An hour or two later Clemens found a notice in his mail-box that apackage for him was in the office.