uccess, the
results were better than I had hoped for. When I brought him the prints,
a few days later, he expressed pleasure and asked, "Why didn't you make
more?"

Among them was one in an attitude which had grown so familiar to us,
that of leaning over to get his pipe from the smoking-table, and this
seemed to give him particular satisfaction. It being a holiday, he
had not donned his dressing-gown, which on the whole was well for the
photographic result. He spoke of other pictures that had been made
of him, especially denouncing one photograph, taken some twenty years
before by Sarony, a picture, as he said, of a gorilla in an overcoat,
which the papers and magazines had insisted on using ever since.

"Sarony was as enthusiastic about wild animals as he was about
photography, and when Du Chaillu brought over the first gorilla he sent
for me to look at it and see if our genealogy was straight. I said it
was, and Sarony was so excited that I had recognized the resemblance
between us, that he wanted to make it more complete, so he borrowed my
overcoat and put it on the gorilla and photographed it, and spread
that picture out over the world as mine. It turns up every week in some
newspaper or magazine; but it's not my favorite; I have tried to get it
suppressed."

Mark Twain made his first investment in Redding that spring. I had
located there the autumn before, and bought a vacant old house, with
a few acres of land, at what seemed a modest price. I was naturally
enthusiastic over the bargain, and the beauty and salubrity of the
situation. His interest was aroused, and when he learned that there was
a place adjoining, equally reasonable and perhaps even more attractive,
he suggested immediately that I buy it for him; and he wanted to write
a check then for the purchase price, for fear the opportunity might
be lost. I think there was then no purpose in his mind of building a
country home; but he foresaw that such a site, at no great distance from
New York, would become more valuable, and he had plenty of idle means.
The purchase was made without difficulty--a tract of seventy-five acres,
to which presently was added another tract of one hundred and ten acres,
and subsequently still other parcels of land, to complete the ownership
of the hilltop, for it was not long until he had conceived the idea of a
home. He was getting weary of the heavy pressure of city life. He craved
the retirement of solitude--one not too far f