It had furnished three of us with good entertainment, and in being removed from the book by me it was only suffering the fate originally intended for it.
_From Susy's Biography._ Papa was born in Missouri.

His mother is Grandma Clemens (Jane Lampton Clemens) of Kentucky.

Grandpa Clemens was of the F.F.V's of Virginia.
Without doubt it was I that gave Susy that impression.

I cannot imagine why, because I was never in my life much impressed by grandeurs which proceed from the accident of birth.

I did not get this indifference from my mother.