This is a review of the second show, my own transcription from TIF send to me from the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Montreal Gazette, February 20, 1885 MARK TWAIN-CABLE Final Entertainment in the Queen's Hall Last Evening Mark Twain and George W. Cable gave another entertainment last evening in the Queen's hall, which was, if possible, even more crowded than on the preceding night. The programme consisted of six numbers, readings from the works of the two authors given alternately, both of them reading without reference to book or manuscript. Mr. Cable opened with a piece entitled “Narcisse puts on mourning for Lady Byron,” which showed to advantage his clear, sweet, well-modulated voice. Mark Twain then stumbled on the stage in a manner that justified the remark that his walk was the “comedy of motion.” He passed his hand through his unruly frizzled hair and stroked his moustache while waiting for the applause, excited by his appearance, to subside. Then he began a reading entitled “Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer's Brilliant Achievement.” The few words of introduction he made fairly took the audience by storm. He said in his peculiar, inimitable drawl, “Most of you here have had a good deal to do with boys, and the rest of you have been boys.” For a second the audience did not seem to notice the joke, but it was only for a second, and they were immediately convulsed with laughter, while Mark stood leaning with one hand on a chair and a discouraged, pathetic look on his face, as he always does when he receives applause. Then he went on to describe a sensation caused by the freaks of two mischievous boys, and throughout kept his hearers in fits of laughter, more however, by the peculiar inflections of his voice and comically serious expression that by the matter, which in itself was excessively amusing. Mr. Cable then sang several songs peculiar to the creoles of the south. Mr. Cable has a fine tenor voice of considerable compass, and one which evidenced careful training. The next number given by this gentleman was “Mary's Night Ride,” which depicts a woman on the way to visit her husband, and being led through the enemy's lines by a spy, when they are discovered, and have to spur their horses to the utmost to escape the shower of bullets which fly past, the mother, meantime soothing her frightened babe. The recitation was a wonderfully spirited one, and showed the versatile talents and dramatic power of which Mr. Cable is possessed. In response to an encore he sung another creole song, and told the audience that of all the places he had been in Montreal was about the hardest—to bid good-bye to. Mark Twain's remaining numbers were “The Blue Jay” and “The Jumping Frog.” The entertainment was throughout a most enjoyable one, and one that most people would like to see repeated in the near future.