A handy place to find his observations on several holidays is the calendar entries at the head of the chapters in PUDD'NHEAD WILSON. See also "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar"--the chapter headings of FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR. My favorite, in its blend of late-Twainian harshness and common-sense humor, heads the concluding chapter of PUDD'NHEAD WILSON: "October 12, the Discovery. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it." I assume that the line (at the close of a far harsher book on the idiocy of slavery than HUCKLEBERY FINN) reflects Clemens' rejection of the whole notion that America is some magical, God-favored place. But surely he's also saying, 'How could Columbus or anyone else sail west from Europe and possibly NOT bump into America?' Mark Coburn