Tonight's episode of QUANTUM LEAP on USA network entitled "Good Night, Dear Heart : November 9, 1957" [original air-date 3/7/90, written by Paul Brown] had an interesting Mark Twain tie-in. Sam "leaped" into a country coroner in a small town in Massachusetts and landed in the middle of a murder investigation. When he went to the apartment of the deceased beautiful blonde, he found a copy of THE COMPLETE SHORT STORIES OF MARK TWAIN, ed. by Charles Neider on a table. After solving the murder (she was killed by a blow from a spike-heeled shoe by her former lesbian lover [I'm not making this up]), Sam opens the book at the victim's grave and explains Twain wrote the following lines for the inscription on his own daughter's gravestone: Warm summer sun Shine kindly here, Warm southern wind Blow gently here Green sod above Lie light, lie light Good night, dear heart, Good night, good night. I don't think the inscription is in SHORT STORIES but I haven't checked. And of course, Twain didn't write the inscription on Susy's headstone although he did have a word altered. The word "southern" was "northern" in the original since in the poet's native Australia the warm wind is from the north. Twain had Robert Richardson's name cut underneath the inscription when he learned that the quote had been attributed to himself. Good fun to see Twain popping up on television, even if mis-quoted or mis- attributed. KJB