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Re: Twain on "hash" and "hasheesh"
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Fred Harwood <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 13 Apr 2005 07:53:42 -0400
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on 4/12/05 9:26 PM, [log in to unmask] at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> "I determined to be upon the ground at an early hour. Now I dislike to be
> exploded, as it were, out of my balmy slumbers, by a sudden, stormy
> assault upon my door, and an imperative order to "Get up!" - wherefore I
> requested one of the intelligent porters of the Lick House to call at my
> palatial apartments, and murmur gently through the key-hole the magic
> monosyllable "Hash!" That "fetched me."

MT also liked his breakfast, perhaps often consisting of simple "hash" and
eggs?

--
Fred Harwood
American Institute for Economic Research
Gt. Barrington MA 01230-1000

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