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Mark Twain himself, as a cub pilot, came near witnessing the battle hedescribes. His housekeeper, KatieLeary, one night employed a cabman to drive her from the Grand CentralStation to the house at 14 West Tenth Street. But a much more conspicuous comment on the Philippine policy was the so-called Defense of General Funston for ave chosen: a hundred men of my own class--grimy sons of labor, the real builders of empires and civilizations, the stevedores

' But hestuck to it. Thewriting of a detailed history of this episode afforded him occupation anda certain amusement, but probably did not contribute to his health. Those were the days!--those old ones. Here he was, clothed in a titanic deceptive modesty which made him look like other men.