It is sand, and history will wash it away.

But the verdict for you is rock, and will stand.
S.L.CLEMENS.
As of date March 18, 1906....
In a diary which Mrs.Clemens kept for a little while, a great many years ago, I find various mentions of Mrs.Harriet Beecher Stowe, who was a near neighbor of ours in Hartford, with no fences between.

And in those days she made as much use of our grounds as of her own, in pleasant weather.

Her mind had decayed, and she was a pathetic figure.
She wandered about all the day long in the care of a muscular Irishwoman.

Among the colonists of our neighborhood the doors always stood open in pleasant weather.