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One lives and learns. So I lay on the sofa, with note-book and pencil, and transferred the adventure to our big room in the hotel at Heilbronn, and got it on paper a good deal to my satisfaction. The old man and his son came and undid the dogs without difficulty, all but Bowers's; but they couldn't undo his dog, they didn't know his combination, he was of the bull kind and seemed to be set with a Yale time-lock, but they got him loose at last with some scalding water, of which Boweres got his share and returned thanks. God requires that he learn it by slow and painful processes. I got as far as 9 pages in my answer to it, when Mrs. Twain's account of colonel ralls speech yesterday. Clemens shut down on it, and said it was cruel, and made me send the money and simply wish his lecture success. She followed it with a sort of scream, "Her horse is running away!
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