But I am forgetting the first Clemens--the one that stands furthest back toward the really original _first_ Clemens, which was Adam.
_From Susy's Biography._ Clara and I are sure that papa played the trick on Grandma, about the whipping, that is related in "The Adventures of Tom Sayer": "Hand me that switch." The switch hovered in the air, the peril was desperate--"My, look behind you Aunt!" The old lady whirled around and snatched her skirts out of danger.

The lad fled on the instant, scrambling up the high board fence and dissapeared over it.
Susy and Clara were quite right about that.
Then Susy says: And we know papa played "Hookey" all the time.

And how readily would papa pretend to be dying so as not to have to go to school! These revelations and exposures are searching, but they are just If I am as transparent to other people as I was to Susy, I have wasted much effort in this life.
Grandma couldn't make papa go to school, no she let him go into a printing-office to learn the trade.

He did so, and gradually picked up enough education to enable him to do about as well as those who were more studious in early life.
It is noticeable that Susy does not get overheated when she is complimenting me, but maintains a proper judicial and biographical calm.
It is noticeable, also, and it is to her credit as a biographer, that she distributes compliment and criticism with a fair and even hand.
My mother had a good deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

She had none at all with my brother Henry, who was two years younger than I, and I think that the unbroken monotony of his goodness and truthfulness and obedience would have been a burden to her but for the relief and variety which I furnished in the other direction.