A glance showed me that he had it upside down--disheartening evidence that he could not read.
"Is ut his own handwrite ?" "Yes--he wrote it himself." "He did, did he ?" "Yes." "H'm.

Well, then, why ud he write it like that ?" "How do you mean ?" "I mane, why wudn't he put his naime to ut ?" "His name is to it.

That's not it--you are looking at my name." I thought that that was a home shot, but he did not betray that he had been hit.

He said: "It's not an aisy one to spell; how do you pronounce ut ?" "Mark Twain." "H'm.

H'm.