last Saturday was the largest recon. There were aver 8,000 invitations, and of course very few fai comply with the request of the King and Queen that they would be present.
am told that quite the lion of the afternoon was Mr. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain.
his' Majesty's request he was presented to him by the American Ambassador and both the King and Queen chatted with him for several minutes during which time the Queen laughed merrily more than once; perhaps she was hearing the joke about the loss of the Ascot gold cup as it is being told everywhere. Mark Twain says that he had only been in London an hour or so when on the contents bills of all the evening papers he saw "Arrival of Mark Twain Gold Cup Stolen." Without even a comma by way of punctuation, OF course each tem of information had a line to itself but that may have been because there was not room for it all together. Any way he pretends to be very hurt at the insinuation which he declares is conveyed, and we may be very sure that it not be forgotten when this trip is written up.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.