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I haveknown him to examine into the cost of a cab, and object to an apparentovercharge of a few cents. --[In a volume of SavageClub anecdotes the date of Mark Twain's election to honorary membershipis given as 1899. It was the winter in London of twenty-five yearsbefore over again. Howells tells of Mark Twain's triumph on this occasion, and in a letterat the time he wrote: You sim

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