Gregg: Well, what did Mr. Duhigg find for you? What I found was: "But I was born with the speculative instinct and I did not want that temptation put in my way." (Notebook 32, TS p. 14, cited in _Mark Twain's Correspondence with Henry Huttleston Rogers_, 337n1). 'Tis a poor thing, but 'tis mine own. I do have a feeling that, like the punch lines to jokes that appear over and over in his notebooks, Clemens probably expressed his awareness of his inclination to speculate many times, in many places--though not often enough, one might say. You do come up with interesting requests for help. Ken