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Clemens was not unwilling to repeat itfor the benefit of all, and did so. ]'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' was officially published in Englandand America in December, 1884, but the book was not in the canvassers'hands for delivery until February. A few days later, aboutnoon, they drove to the archducal palace, inquired their way to the royalanteroo olatrous system, with its picturesque and amazing customs and superstitions, three months before the arriva

ToMacAlister he wrote: I profoundly grieve over Irving's death. And again: As it stands, I believe the thing will fail, and it would be a disgraceto have it succeed. His note-book of that time isfull of motifs and plots, most of them of that improbable and extravagantkind which tended to defeat any literary purpose, whether humorous orotherwise. We banked for the shot and he won it.