CHOICE BITS
FROM
MARK TWAIN.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
I WO or three persons having at different
times intimated that if I would write
an autobiography they would read it when they
got leisure, I yield at last to this frenzied public
demand, and herewith tender my history.
Ours is a noble old house, and stretches a long
way back into antiquity. The earliest ancestor
the Twains have any record of was a friend of the
family by the name of Higgins. This was in the
eleventh century, when our people were living in
Abeideen, county of Cork, England. Why it is
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