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There's evidence that he couldn't, he said. Dear babe, whose fiftieth year to-day Your ripe half-century rounded, I can begin now. Which I do--and shut up.

There was a brief program following the light-hearted feasting--aninformal program fitting to that sunny day. with the American flag furled and draped in crepe, and the shade ofLincoln towering vast and dim toward the sky, brooding with sorrowfulaspect over the far-reaching pageant. Clemens sometimes set himself up as umpire, and became critic and gaveadvice, while Littleton and I played. Webster was half wild with the tumult of the great campaign.