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From: Bob Rogers <[log in to unmask]
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 22:35:05 -0500
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This is that cave now known as (glances at his framed bumper sticker
collection)
"Mark Twain Cave".  The guides there (and, I think, Twain's autobiobraphy
and/or "Life on the Mississippi") tell us that a doctor put his dead
daughter
there in a metal container, immersed in some preservative solution
(alchohol?).
The boys of the town would dare each other to open the container and pull
her
out by the hair for a look.  The town - no doubt represented by the boys'
parents - didn't approve of this and the girl was moved to a more peaceful
grave.

Bob Rogers
Minneapolis, MN

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