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On my way through town to the hotel, I saw the house which was my home
when I was a boy. At present rates, the people who now occupy it are of
no more value than I am; but in my time they would have been worth not
less than five hundred dollars apiece. They are colored folk. [I returned] like some banished Adam who is revisiting his half-forgotten
Paradise and wondering how the arid outside world could ever have seemed
green and fair to him. |
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| Hannibal has had a hard time of it ever
since I can recollect, and I was "raised" there. First, it had
me for a citizen, but I was too young then to really hurt the place. - letter to the Alta California, dated April 16, 1867; published May 26, 1867 |
An introduction
to ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
dedicating the book to the boys and girls of Hannibal, Missouri that was never
used.
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 HANNIBAL MISSOURI; BLUFF CITY MEMORIES by Steven Chou available from amazon.com |
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