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fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean, & I beg to thank the committee for providing me that pleasure. to me; how she had clung toevery duty as if now, after all the years, she was determined to make upfor lost time. There is no appreciation of my books that is so precious to me asappreciation from my children. Each at the mountain-top of his career, theyagreed that the journey was not worth while--that what the world

One day she said: Mama, why is there so much pain and sorrow and suffering? What is itall for? It was an easy question, and mama had no difficulty in answering it: It is for our good, my child. Mind is plainlyan ass, but it will be many ages before it finds it out, no doubt. And so passed out of earthly affairs the man who had contributed solargely to the comfort of Mark Twain's old age. According to the genial English custom, after my five charges had gone to bed, I took my evening meal alone in the school-room,