The Ellsworth version is the one I see in my Oxford edition. On Tue, 2018-10-02 at 13:38 -0500, Robert M Ellsworth wrote: > On Oct 1, 2018, at 9:49 AM, Martin Zehr <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > Just finished Kevin's excellent review- what else is new?- of Kerry > > Driscoll's book on Twain's conflicting attitudes toward the > > American > > Indian. A topic well-deserving the attention of a scholar like Dr. > > Driscoll. Don't know if she mentioned this, but years ago Tom > > Quirk > > pointed out to me that, in his late work, Extracts from Captain > > Stormfield's Visit to Heaven, the guard at the entrance to Heaven > > is a > > "Pai-Ute" Indian. What gives? > And then a bunch of comments follow =E2=80=A6 none of which, > surprising = > to me in this congeries of Twain scholars, actually reference the = > source. > > Even a cursory reference to an online source of this text reveals the > = > following, including the correct Twain spelling of the tribe name, = > different from that in quotes above: > > 'I hopped onto the carpet and held my breath and shut my eyes and > wished = > I was in the booking-office of my own section. The very next instant > a = > voice I knew sung out in a business kind of a way=E2=80=94 > > =E2=80=98 =E2=80=9CA harp and a hymn-book, pair of wings and a halo, > = > size 13, for Cap=E2=80=99n Eli Stormfield, of San > Francisco!=E2=80=94make = > him out a clean bill of health, and let him in.=E2=80=9D > > 'I opened my eyes. Sure enough, it was a Pi Ute Injun I used to know > in = > Tulare County; mighty good fellow=E2=80=94I remembered being at his = > funeral, which consisted of him being burnt and the other Injuns > gauming = > their faces with his ashes and howling like wildcats. He was > powerful = > glad to see me, and you may make up your mind I was just as glad to > see = > him, and feel that I was in the right kind of a heaven at last.' -- There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. http://bscottholmes.com