AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 11
to get the idleness and sloth out of the sailors of
that ship by compelling them to take invigorating
exercise and a bath. He called it " walking a
plank." All the pupils liked it. At any rate they
never found any fault with it after trying it. When
the owners were late coming for their ships, the
Admiral always burned them, so that the insurance
money should not be lost. At last this fine old
tar was cut down in the fulness of his years and
honours. And to her dying day his poor heart¬
broken widow believed that if he had been cut
down fifteen minutes sooner he might have been
resuscitated.
Charles Henry Twain lived during the latter
part of the seventeenth century, and was a zealous
and distinguished missionary. He converted sixteen
thousand South Sea islanders, and taught them
that a dog-tooth necklace and a pair of spectacles
was not enough clothing to come to divine service
in. His poor flock loved him very, very dearly;
and when his funeral was over they got up in a
body (and came out of the restaurant) with tears
in their eyes, and saying one to another that he
was a good tender missionary, and they wished
they had some more of him.
Pah-go-to-wah-wah Pukketekeewis (Mighty-
Hunter-with-a-Hogg-Eye) Twain adorned the mid¬
dle of the eighteenth century, and aided General
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