Sharon McCoy is correct, "A Difficult Conundrum" was the original title of "Flies and Russians," the manuscript for which is in the Mark Twain Papers. John Tuckey, Ken Sanderson, Bernard L. Stein, and Fred Anderson published it in *Mark Twain's Fables of Man* (UC Press, 1972), pp. 420-24. The canceled title is reported on pp. 728-29. "Brief Biography of the Government" is a manuscript in the Berg Collection, unpublished except in *Microfilm Edition of Mark Twain's Literary Manuscripts Available in the Mark Twain Papers, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley* (2001), roll number 40. The manuscript shows that Clemens intended it as a letter to the editor of *Harper's Weekly* and that he signed it "Constant Reader." I can make a transcription of it and send same to anyone who wants it. Bob Hirst