Nope--  nothing to do with that pasaage from Horace, but you have the right 
Horace.

Here's clue #3:  This is pretty much a yes or no question.

NB: To claim the prize, you must be able to explain your answer in the 
context of clues 1 (Horace) and 2 (crying).

I expect Google's servers will crash some time this evening as a direct 
result of my silly little contest.

Kevin
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregg Camfield" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: contest!


> And since it's the roman Horace and the clue is about making someone cry, 
> w=
> hich suggests the dissembling tears Tiresias tells Ulysses to shed over 
> the=
> death of an old woman in Satires II:5.  But I can't guess what.
>
> Gregg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Kevin Mac 
> Don=
> nell
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 7:33 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: contest!
>
> We've had two very good guesses. and one was only eleven words long. Mark
> Twain's shortest published work is much shorter than that. As short as can
> be.
>
> Not Bixby. Not Greeley. Not Walpole. And while we're at it, not Mann,
> although a man.  I'm thinking of a fifth one, which would make him a 
> quint.=
>
> I'll get some flak for these bad puns...
>
> Kevin
> @
> Mac Donnell Rare Books
> 9307 Glenlake Drive
> Austin TX 78730
> 512-345-4139
> Member: ABAA, ILAB
> *************************
> You may browse our books at
> www.macdonnellrarebooks.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 9:01 AM
> Subject: Re: contest!
>
>
>> I'm way off.  "The Canvasser's Tale" is far too long.
>>
>> But the third Horace could be Walpole (and his house).
>> Second clue is a mystery.  Someone will know.  Fun
>> contest, Kevin.
>>
>> Roger Durrett
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 4/30/2010 9:31:38 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> [log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>> Another  excellent guess, but wrong again!
>>
>> Here are two clues:
>>
>> 1. Not  Bixby. Not Greeley. The other one...
>>
>> 2. I hope this contest has not  made anybody cry.
>>
>> Another clue will appear this evening if needed. But  if I have to 
>> provid=
> e
>> my
>> third and easiest clue, the winner will need to  provide the context for
>> his
>> answer with regard to clues 1 and  2.
>>
>> Kevin
>> @
>> Mac Donnell Rare Books
>> 9307 Glenlake  Drive
>> Austin TX 78730
>> 512-345-4139
>> Member: ABAA,  ILAB
>> *************************
>> You may browse our books  at
>> www.macdonnellrarebooks.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "ANGELO CIFALDI" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To:  <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:41 PM
>> Subject:  Re: contest!
>>
>>
>>> Galaxy,  March 1871 -  Twain's  announcement that "Memoranda" would not
>>> appear in this issue since  there was an illness in his family.
>>>
>>>  Angelo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Kevin Mac Donnell"  <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To:  <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:51  PM
>>> Subject: contest!
>>>
>>>
>>>> Here's a simple  contest open to all members of the Forum with the =3D
>>>> exception of  anyone who was present on a certain wine-tasting 
>>>> excursio=
> n
>> =3D
>>>> in  upstate NY last week, where I first posed this  question.
>>>>
>>>> The prize is a pristine first edition copy  of WHO IS MARK TWAIN? 
>>>> edite=
> d
>> =3D
>>>> by Bob  Hirst.
>>>>
>>>> How to win? Be the first to post the correct  answer (in my sole
>> opinion)
>>>> =3D
>>>> to this  question:
>>>>
>>>> What is Mark Twain's shortest published  work?
>>>>
>>>> Clue: It was first published in a magazine and  so far as I know has 
>>>> =3D=
>
>>>> never been collected in his  works.
>>>>
>>>> More clues will follow if needed...
>>>>  =3D20
>>>> Kevin
>>>> @
>>>> Mac Donnell Rare  Books
>>>> 9307 Glenlake Drive
>>>> Austin TX 78730
>>>>  512-345-4139
>>>> Member: ABAA, ILAB
>>>>  *************************
>>>> You may browse our books  at=3D20
>>>>  www.macdonnellrarebooks.com
>>>>
>>>
>>
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