Re Jerry Dean's comment: >I also have a recollection of something one of his daughters said of >his speech on the lecture platform. It seems to me that her comment was >about how much slower and more heavily accented his speech was when he >gave lectures than when he spoke normally. Clara writes: "Father knew the full value of a pause and had the courage to make a long one when required for a big effect. And his inimitable drawling speech, which he often lost in private life, greatly increased the humorous effect on the stage." Pp. 138-139, "My Father -- Mark Twain", Harper and Brothers, New York 1931 Regards to all Ron Hohenhaus Australia