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MARK TWAIN AT SEVENTY

MARK TWAIN'S SUGGESTED TITLE-PAGE FOR HIS MICROBE BOOK

I have done more for San Francisco than any other of its old residents. Since I left there, it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more—I could have gone earlier—it was suggested.

A choice example, by the way, of Mark Twain's best humor, with its perfectly timed pause, and the

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