[Life On The Mississippi Part 9. by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookLife On The Mississippi Part 9. CHAPTER 47 Uncle Remus and Mr 5/5
He said that away out West, once, he had met, and contemplated, and actually shaken hands with a man bearing that impossible name--'Eschol Sellers.' He added-- 'It was twenty years ago; his name has probably carried him off before this; and if it hasn't, he will never see the book anyhow.
We will confiscate his name.
The name you are using is common, and therefore dangerous; there are probably a thousand Sellerses bearing it, and the whole horde will come after us; but Eschol Sellers is a safe name--it is a rock.' So we borrowed that name; and when the book had been out about a week, one of the stateliest and handsomest and most aristocratic looking white men that ever lived, called around, with the most formidable libel suit in his pocket that ever--well, in brief, we got his permission to suppress an edition of ten million {footnote [Figures taken from memory, and probably incorrect.
Think it was more.]} copies of the book and change that name to 'Mulberry Sellers' in future editions..
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