This is a review of the second show, my own transcription from TIF send
to me from the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.

Montreal Gazette, February 20, 1885

MARK TWAIN-CABLE

Final Entertainment in the Queen's Hall Last Evening

Mark Twain and George W. Cable gave another entertainment last evening
in the Queen's hall, which was, if possible, even more crowded than on
the preceding night.  The programme consisted of six numbers, readings
from the works of the two authors given alternately, both of them
reading without reference to book or manuscript.  Mr. Cable opened with
a piece entitled “Narcisse puts on mourning for Lady Byron,” which
showed to advantage his clear, sweet, well-modulated voice.  Mark Twain
then stumbled on the stage in a manner that justified the remark that
his walk was the “comedy of motion.” He passed his hand through his
unruly frizzled hair and stroked his moustache while waiting for the
applause, excited by his appearance, to subside.  Then he began a
reading entitled “Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer's Brilliant Achievement.”
The few words of introduction he made fairly took the audience by storm.
He said in his peculiar, inimitable drawl, “Most of you here have had a
good deal to do with boys, and the rest of you have been boys.”  For a
second the audience did not seem to notice the joke, but it was only for
a second, and they were immediately convulsed with laughter, while Mark
stood leaning with one hand on a chair and a discouraged, pathetic look
on his face, as he always does when he receives applause.  Then he went
on to describe a sensation caused by the freaks of two mischievous boys,
and throughout kept his hearers in fits of laughter, more however, by
the peculiar inflections of his voice and comically serious expression
that by the matter, which in itself was excessively amusing.   Mr. Cable
then sang several songs peculiar to the creoles of the south.  Mr. Cable
has a fine tenor voice of considerable compass, and one which evidenced
careful training.  The next number  given by this gentleman was “Mary's
Night Ride,” which depicts a woman on the way to visit her husband, and
being led through the enemy's lines by a spy, when they are discovered,
and have to spur their horses to the utmost to escape the shower of
bullets which fly past, the mother, meantime soothing her frightened
babe.  The recitation was a wonderfully spirited one, and showed the
versatile talents and dramatic power of which Mr. Cable is possessed.
In response to an encore he sung another creole song, and told the
audience that of all the places he had been in Montreal was about the
hardest—to bid good-bye to.  Mark Twain's remaining numbers were “The
Blue Jay” and “The Jumping Frog.”  The entertainment was throughout a
most enjoyable one, and one that  most people would like to see repeated
in the near future.