Thank you all! I have read so many Twain/Indian documents in the past five
days that I forgot to look at the obvious. Bob
In a message dated 2/14/2014 8:08:00 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
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Bob,
This story is from chapter 25 of ROUGHING IT.
Barb
On Friday, February 14, 2014, Robert E Stewart <[log in to unmask]
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Help. Someplace I read, recently, that Orion Clemens sent an unsigned
invoice to Washington for firewood delivered by an Indian. Washington
denied
payment.
Sam then helped the Indian make a "very shaky" X as "his[X]mark and the
bill went through with no problem.
Can anyone help me with a cite?
Bob Stewart