[Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookChapters from My Autobiography CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY 11/20
At the time that I was dictating these comments, several months ago, I was trying to call back to my memory some of the details of that article, but I was not able to do it, and I wished I had a copy of the article so that I could see what there was about it which gave it such large interest for Susy. Yesterday afternoon I elected to walk home from the luncheon at the St. Regis, which is in 56th Street and Fifth Avenue, for it was a fine spring day and I hadn't had a walk for a year or two, and felt the need of exercise.
As I walked along down Fifth Avenue the desire to see that "Christian Union" article came into my head again.
I had just reached the corner of 42nd Street then, and there was the usual jam of wagons, carriages, and automobiles there.
I stopped to let it thin out before trying to cross the street, but a stranger, who didn't require as much room as I do, came racing by and darted into a crack among the vehicles and made the crossing.
But on his way past me he thrust a couple of ancient newspaper clippings into my hand, and said, "There, you don't know me, but I have saved them in my scrap-book for twenty years, and it occurred to me this morning that perhaps you would like to see them, so I was carrying them down-town to mail them, I not expecting to run across you in this accidental way, of course; but I will give them into your own hands now.
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