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To one applicant hewrote:No, there are temptations against which we are fire-proof. But I think you oughtto print it and get up a squabble, for the weather is just suitable. Of my playmates I recall John Briggs,John Garth, and Laura Hawkins--just those three; the rest I buried longago, and memory cannot even find their graves. It was Huck Finn's morality that caused the book to be excluded from theConcord Library, and from other libraries here and there at a later day.

It was a situation full of amusing possibilities; but he reached noconclusion in the matter. It was a political year, and he generally had something to say on mattersmunicipal, national, or internation They think they were the first attacked. If you are not misreporting those people you are just in the right business passing the mendicant hat for them.