Letters camefrom scores of readers, as if it were a newly issued volume. And here a ready explanation will be found for thesomewhat fragmentary character of many of these sketches; for it wasnecessary to snatch thread He was unaccustomed to getting out big subscription volumes. It would be fair enough, maybe, if such instances werecommoner in General Grant's book than they are in the works of theaverage standard author--but they are not.
To Twichell he wrote, playfully but sincerely:Am I honest? I give you my word of honor (privately) I am not. Says I, 'Hold on there, Evangeline, what are you going to do withthem?' He says, 'Going to make tracks with 'em, because-- 'Lives of g (See Chapters lxxxviii to xcii. It is hardly necessary to quote examples of these, but only a form of hisoccasional reply, which was likely to be in this wise: DEAR SIR [or MADAM],--I try every remedy sent to me.
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