Mark Twain - Chapters From My Autobiography - Chapter XIV

Mark Twain

Chapters From My Autobiography - Chapter XIV

From Susy's Biography of Me

Feb. 27, Sunday

Clara's reputation as a baby was always a fine one, mine exactly the contrary. One often related story concerning her braveness as a baby and her own opinion of this quality of hers is this. Clara and I often got slivers in our hands and when mama took them out with a much dreaded needle, Clara was always very brave, and I very cowardly.