It was a day above Avignon that he had an experience worth while. Clemens wrote a number of things that summer, among them a little essayentitled, The Privilege of the Grave --that is to say, free speech. In spite of his disturbed state of mind Clemens must have completed someliterary work during this period, for we find first mention, in a letter He often met largecalamities with a serenity which almost resembled indifference.
Others requested thathis autograph be attached to a check of interesting size. Commenting on his boyhood days and referring to his motherwas too much for the great humorist. He went on dancing his toy chickens, and saying, over and over,'Chicken-fight at your own fireside. It is not altogether clear why it waswithheld, even then.
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