Just before he started on his tripp Grandma Clemens asked him to promise her on the Bible not to touch intoxicating liquors or swear, and he said "Yes, mother, I will," and he kept that promise seven years when Grandma released him from it.
Under the inspiring influence of that remark, what a garden of forgotten reforms rises upon my sight! MARK TWAIN.
(_To be Continued._) NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW No.

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NOVEMBER 16, 1906..