Although Mr. Churchill, as the guest of the evening, received the first honours from the Friars, it must be confessed that the heartiest demonstration of enthusiasm was not given to him, That was reserved for one who is a Friar himself, Mr. Samuel Clemens, better known to the world as Mark Twain." Mr, Clemens has come down to say farewell to his brother Friars before returning to the land of his birth. For some time past Mark Twain has been resident in this country, for which, with all his patriotic love for the United States, he hxs a strong liking and his innumerable friends on this si of the water are very hopeful that it will not be long before he is once more among us, Mark Twain, as is well known, is almost as humorous an after-dinner speaker as he is a writer; and he never spoke more humorously, or at the same time with more deep feeling, than he did in taking what. might not inconceivably be a last personal farewell of his friends in England.
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