[The $30000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThe $30000 Bequest and Other Stories CHAPTER V 41/101
It is like this.
You see--" "Never mind explaining, I don't care anything about it.
Six Hads is enough for me; anybody that needs twelve, let him subscribe; I don't want any stock in a Had Trust.
Knock out the Prolonged and Indefinitely Continuous; four-fifths of it is water, anyway." "But I beg you, podere! It is often quite indispensable in cases where--" "Pipe the next squad to the assault!" But it was not to be; for at that moment the dull boom of the noon gun floated up out of far-off Florence, followed by the usual softened jangle of church-bells, Florentine and suburban, that bursts out in murmurous response; by labor-union law the COLAZIONE (1) must stop; stop promptly, stop instantly, stop definitely, like the chosen and best of the breed of Hads. 1.
Colazione is Italian for a collection, a meeting, a seance, a sitting .-- M.T. A BURLESQUE BIOGRAPHY Two or three persons having at different times intimated that if I would write an autobiography they would read it when they got leisure, I yield at last to this frenzied public demand and herewith tender my history. Ours is a noble house, and stretches a long way back into antiquity. The earliest ancestor the Twains have any record of was a friend of the family by the name of Higgins.
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