Google forever!  Googling "Mark Twain" and "up and down the library" tells me that the quotation is from Paine and the word is "promenading."

And "he said to Mamma in an appologetical tone" (from the Autobiography). (The misspelling is his.)

Barbara Ladd

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Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2019 9:16 AM
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Subject: [External] "isterine" in Day By Day

I am fearlessly reading the stupendous "Mark Twain Day By Day," and in volume 2 of the digital edition, I note that it contains the assemblage of letters ("isterine") in multiple (6) places. My hunch is that this is a global search-and-replace gone wrong, but I haven't figured out just yet what the replaced word or fraction of a word originally was.
Here are the occasions where it occurs:
0) saving it up, & isterine it, & making it last as long as possible
1) and I were isterine up and down the library
2) Finally he said to Mamma in an isterine tone,
3) recounted the isterine stories which each Knight
4) He was such a isterine speaker
5) Mch 16 Bottle isterine 1.00 Mch 17 Flax Seed .35 tot 1.35


Does anybody know what I should replace (in my mind) when I come across "isterine"? "Punch, Brother, Punch with Care" does not quite seem to fit...
- B. Clay Shannon

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