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CLXIXTHE COMING OF KIPLINGIt was the summer of 1889 that Mark Twain first met Rudyard Kipling. Dooley ) came down forluncheon, and after several games of the usual sort, Clemens quietly--asif the idea had just o Clemens said: Trowbridge, are you still alive? You must be a thousand years old. ]CCISOCIAL LIFE IN VIENNAClemens, no longer worried about finances and full of ideas andprospects, was writing now

I got to working out geological periods,trying to think of some way to comprehend them, and then astronomicalperiods. So Clara is writing to a Florence friend to take a look around among the villas for us in the regions near that city. Clemens was ill with a heavy cold whenthey arrived; and in fact, at no time during this long journeying was hishealth as good as that of his companions. o, not a gray hair showing! This rejuvenescence was noticeable within two hours after her death; & when I went down again (2.