At 01:11 PM 2/6/97 -0500, Jeri Zulli wrote:
>I'm amazed at the number of people on this list who are willing to take
>Mark Twain's word for sources such as for his pen name and for Huck Finn.
>He's the last person I would expect to give the whole story, even in his
>own journals.
>

Not sure of the source again, but I believe I read in
_Life on the Mississippi_
that Sam Clemens knew of an old man who used the pen name
        before himself.

Eh?

Mike