[Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookChapters from My Autobiography CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY 20/23
That a man who had been a soldier for more than four years, and who had preached in that pulpit so many, many times on really moving subjects, without even the quiver of a lip, should break all down over the Begats, they couldn't understand. But there it is--any one can see how such a mystery as that would arouse the curiosity of those people to the boiling-point. Harris has had many adventures.
He has more adventures in a year than anybody else has in five.
One Saturday night he noticed a bottle on his uncle's dressing-bureau.
He thought the label said "Hair Restorer," and he took it in his room and gave his head a good drenching and sousing with it and carried it back and thought no more about it.
Next morning when he got up his head was a bright green! He sent around everywhere and couldn't get a substitute preacher, so he had to go to his church himself and preach--and he did it.
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