where he declares that the figure of Joan withthe martyr's crown upon her head shall stand for patriotism through alltime. Clemens became the victim of a very clever hoax that summer. To send an elephant in a trance, under pretense that it was dead orstuffed! he said. The machine isn't done.
The type-settingmachine which for years had been sapping his financial strength wasbelieved to be perfected, and ship-loads of money were waiting in theoffing. To forty-nine men in fifty the Sabbath day is a dreary, dreary bore. Incidentally he did an occasional piece of literary work. In spite of his cares and diversions Clemens's literary activities ofthis time were considerable.
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