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December 10 Saturday – The New York Times wrote up the Montreal dinner of Dec. 8. Headlines:

MARK TWAIN IN MONTREAL

HIS SPEECH AT THE BANQUET IN HIS HONOR.

AN EXPLANATION HOW HE CAME TO BE IN AN OSTENSIBLY FOREIGN LAND – LOOKING FORWARD TO THE GOOD TIMES COMING WHEN LITERARY PROPERTY WILL BE AS SACRED AT WHISKY

Sam remarked in his speech “This is the first time I was ever in a city where you couldn’t throw a brick without breaking a church window” [MTNJ 2: 411n177]. He mentioned the Canadian naturalist and geologist Henry George  Vennor [Gribben 725].

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