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Chapters from My Autobiography

CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY .-- IV.
BY MARK TWAIN.
When Susy was thirteen, and was a slender little maid with plaited tails of copper-tinged brown hair down her back, and was perhaps the busiest bee in the household hive, by reason of the manifold studies, health exercises and recreations she had to attend to, she secretly, and of her own motion, and out of love, added another task to her labors--the writing of a biography of me.

She did this work in her bedroom at night, and kept her record hidden.

After a little, the mother discovered it and filched it, and let me see it; then told Susy what she had done, and how pleased I was, and how proud.

I remember that time with a deep pleasure.

I had had compliments before, but none that touched me like this; none that could approach it for value in my eyes.


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