the other passengers
afraid. They didn't like the light that flared into my eye when I
had an inspiration. And even the most fair-minded people doubted me
when I explained what it was I was making--especially brakemen.
Brakemen always swore at it and carried on, the way ignorant people
do about art. They wouldn't take my word that it was a slipper;
they said they believed it was a snow-shoe that had some kind of
disease.

He went on to explain and elucidate the pattern of the slipper, and
how Dr. Root had come in and insisted on taking a hand in it, and how
beautiful it was to see him sit there and tell Mrs. Clemens what had
been happening while they were away during the summer, holding the
slipper up toward the end of his nose, imagining the canvas was a
"subject" with a scalp-wound, working with a "lovely surgical stitch,"
never hesitating a moment in his talk except to say "Ouch!" when he
stuck himself with the needle.

Take the slippers and wear them next your heart, Elsie dear; for
every stitch in them is a testimony of the affection which two of
your loyalest friends bear you. Every single stitch cost us blood.
I've got twice as many pores in me now as I used to have; and you
would never believe how many places you can stick a needle in
yourself until you go into the embroidery line and devote yourself
to art.

Do not wear these slippers in public, dear; it would only excite
envy; and, as like as not, somebody would try to shoot you.

Merely use them to assist you in remembering that among the many,
many people who think all the world of you is your friend,

MARK TWAIN.

The play of "The Prince and the Pauper," dramatized by Mrs. Richardson
and arranged for the stage by David Belasco, was produced at the Park
Theater, Philadelphia, on Christmas Eve. It was a success, but not a
lavish one. The play was well written and staged, and Elsie Leslie was
charming enough in her parts, but in the duality lay the difficulty.
The strongest scenes in the story had to be omitted when one performer
played both Tom Canty and the little Prince. The play came to New
York--to the Broadway Theater--and was well received. On the opening
night there Mark Twain made a speech, in which he said that the
presentation of "The Prince and the Pauper" realized a dream which
fifteen years before had possessed him all through a long down-to