Is there record of Twain telling Grandfather's Ram on the lecture circuit? His rendering in his autobiography ("Eruption," p. 220 et al), which is the version Holbrook renders almost verbatim, is a complete rewrite of his version in "Roughing It." Even the names are changed and the laughs less strained. I recited the scene about accidents and Uncle Lem for an audition to a national theatre company - and got the part. JerryV