Is there record of Twain telling Grandfather's Ram on the lecture circuit?
His rendering in his autobiography ("Eruption," p. 220 et al), which is the
version Holbrook renders almost verbatim, is a complete rewrite of his
version in "Roughing It." Even the names are changed and the laughs less
strained. I recited the scene about accidents and Uncle Lem for an audition
to a national theatre company - and got the part.

JerryV