| | 1 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Sociable Jimmy  | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | [I sent the following home in a private letter some
time ago from a certain little village. It was in
the days when I was a public lecturer. I did it because
I wished to preserve the memory of the
most artless, sociable, and exhaustless talker I ever
came across. He did not tell me a single
remarkable thing, or one that was worth remembering;
and yet he was himself so interested in his
small marvels, and they flowed so naturally and comfortably
from his lips that his talk got the
upper hand of my interest, too, and I listened as one who
receives a revelation. I took down what
he had to say, just as he said it—without
altering a word or adding one.] | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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