A correspondent has written challenging Twain's quotation from Herodotus that appears in "A Horse's Tale": "Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: The conscientious historian will correct these defects." - P. 143 _The Mysterious Stranger, Etc._, 1922 edition, Acknowledgments for "A Horse's Tale." In checking _Mark Twain's Library: A Reconstruction_, mention is made that Twain used a "fictitious" quote from Herodotus for Appendix A of _A Tramp Abroad_. Is it possible that Twain also constructed a "fictitious" Herodotus quote for "A Horse's Tale"? Barb