Hey, Mark, nice to see your smiling face again.  (Ask Mark, he can
tell you how capable I am at making an ass of myself.)  Why, I can even
stand with MT when he said to Washington Cable:  "I am demeaning myself.
I am allowing myself to be a mere buffoon. It's ghastly. I can't endure
it any longer."

Anyway, Susan, and all, here's a pretty good site on Cable and Twain:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/hftourhp.html

Harold