ed all
day, resting after his week of labor; but Cable would rise, bright
and chipper, dress himself in neat and suitable attire, and visit the
various churches and Sunday-schools in town, usually making a brief
address at each, being always invited to do so.

It seems worth while to include one of the Clemens-Cable programs
here--a most satisfactory one. They varied it on occasion, and when they
were two nights in a place changed it completely, but the program here
given was the one they were likely to use after they had proved its
worth:

PROGRAM

Richling's visit to Kate Riley
GEO. W. CABLE

King Sollermun
MARK TWAIN

(a) Kate Riley and Ristofolo
(b) Narcisse in mourning for "Lady Byron"
(c) Mary's Night Ride
GEO. W. CABLE
(a) Tragic Tale of the Fishwife
(b) A Trying Situation
(c) A Ghost Story
MARK TWAIN

At a Mark Twain memorial meeting (November 30, 1910), where the few who
were left of his old companions told over quaint and tender memories,
George Cable recalled their reading days together and told of Mark
Twain's conscientious effort to do his best, to be worthy of himself,
regardless of all other concerns. He told how when they had been
traveling for a while Clemens seemed to realize that he was only giving
the audience nonsense; making them laugh at trivialities which they
would forget before they had left the entertainment hall. Cable said
that up to that time he had supposed Clemens's chief thought was the
entertainment of the moment, and that if the audience laughed he was
satisfied. He told how he had sat in the wings, waiting his turn, and
heard the tides of laughter gather and roll forward and break against
the footlights, time and time again, and how he had believed his
colleague to be glorying in that triumph. What was his surprise, then,
on the way to the hotel in the carriage, when Clemens groaned and seemed
writhing in spirit and said:

"Oh, Cable, I am demeaning myself. I am allowing myself to be a mere
buffoon. It's ghastly. I can't endure it any longer."

Cable added that all that night and the next day Mark Twain devoted
himself to the study and rehearsal of selections which were justified
not only as humor, but as literat