Perhaps you do not know that I am myself of dyed-in-the-wool Southern and secession stock.

My father and grandfather came to Ohio from South Carolina just before I was born.

Naturally I have no sectional prejudices, but I live in Cincinnati and I am a Republican." There was not a little more of the same sort.

Just how it passed through the World office I know not; but it actually appeared.

On returning to the table I told the company what Mark Twain and I had done.