id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 2982 Paine, Albert Bigelow Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume I, Part 1: 1835-1866 .txt text/plain 89485 5066 80 Twain in those days when you and he "went gipsying, a long time ago." John Clemens believed that the years lay not far distant when the land The family at this time occupied a log house built by John Clemens the little lad whom the world would one day know as Mark Twain. later, the Clemens family gathered tearfully around Little Sam's bed to early when Judge Clemens got up to saddle his horse, and Little Sam was Little Sam, then--saw an old man shot down on the main street, at Tom Blankenship one morning came to Sam Clemens and John Briggs and said If your memory extends so far back, you will recall a little sandyhaired boy--[The color of Mark Twain's hair in early life has been So Sam Clemens got the little book, and presently it "fairly bristled" As long as he lived Samuel Clemens would return to those old days ./cache/2982.txt ./txt/2982.txt