The Letters Of Mark Twain, Complete


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scrapes off the barnacles when he wants his racer to go her best gait  
and straight to the buoy.) You should write a letter every day, long or  
short--and so ought I, but I don't.  
Mamma says, tell Clara yes, she will have to write a note if the fan  
comes back mended.  
We couldn't go to Nice to-day--had to give it up, on various  
accounts--and this was the last chance. I am sorry for Mamma--I wish she  
could have gone. She got a heavy fall yesterday evening and was pretty  
stiff and lame this morning, but is working it off trunk packing.  
Joseph is gone to Nice to educate himself in Kodaking--and to get the  
pictures mounted which Mamma thinks she took here; but I noticed  
she didn't take the plug out, as a rule. When she did, she took nine  
pictures on top of each other--composites.  
With lots of love.  
PAPA.  
In the course of their Italian wanderings they reached Florence,  
where they were so comfortable and well that they decided to engage  
a villa for the next winter. Through Prof. Willard Fiske, they  
discovered the Villa Viviani, near Settignano, an old palace  
beautifully located on the hilltops east of Florence, commanding a  
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