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with the Yankee's impression of the curious country and its people,
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where the Yankee has organized a West Point of his own in King Arthur's
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He began:
I have been in the Sandwich Islands-twenty-three years ago--that
and soft idleness, and repose, and dreams, where life is one long
that die experience no change, for they but fall asleep in one
there!--baseball, which is the very symbol, the outward and visible
living, tearing, booming nineteenth, the mightiest of all the
the close the poetry of his memories once more possessed him:
Ah, well, it is refreshment to the jaded, it is water to the
of those Isles of the Blest and had before their eyes the
earth has any deep, strong charm for me but that one; no other land
waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things
same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas
its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing
cloud-rack; I can feel the spirit of its woody solitudes, I hear the
flowers that perished twenty years ago.
Kipling was making his tour around the world, a young man wholly unheard
The Pioneer, and he came to Elmira especially to see Mark Twain. It was
him to Quarry Farm. In a hired hack he made his way out through the
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