Is there a specific citation for the $5.75 fare mentioned in
_Extract From Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven_.  I've
gone through the latest Oxford edition of this work and have
been unable to locate it.

Barb

On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, George Kasprzak wrote:

> I found this the other day, anyone else seen it?
> comments?
>
> Here is the answer to the question of why the $5.00 and quarters in the
> victims pockets.
>
>       Interestingly enough, in 1907, Samuel Langhorne
>  Clemens, aka Mark Twain, wrote a short story
>  entitled "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Trip to
>  Heaven," in which the hero leaves Earth for "an
>  extended excursion among the heavenly bodies"
>  on the tail of a comet.
>       In the story, the hero has his passport on him,
>  plus five dollars and three 25-cent pieces for the fare.
>       Many of the Heaven's Gate victims had their
>  passports on their persons and $5.75 in their hands.
>  (See New York Post, March 29, 1997, page 6)