CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY .-- VII.
BY MARK TWAIN.
I was always heedless.

I was born heedless; and therefore I was constantly, and quite unconsciously, committing breaches of the minor proprieties, which brought upon me humiliations which ought to have humiliated me but didn't, because I didn't know anything had happened.
But Livy knew; and so the humiliations fell to her share, poor child, who had not earned them and did not deserve them.

She always said I was the most difficult child she had.

She was very sensitive about me.

It distressed her to see me do heedless things which could bring me under criticism, and so she was always watchful and alert to protect me from the kind of transgressions which I have been speaking of.
When I was leaving Hartford for Washington, upon the occasion referred to, she said: "I have written a small warning and put it in a pocket of your dress-vest.