All men love the man.
A number of our people here have indulged in the fact that he is the greatest humorist living. Now, do you know that Mark Twain has never struck me as being a humorist. There is something infinitely greater than making you laugh, and that is, if you will permit me, making you shed tears. But just as Charles Dickens will live in the history of the world and the hearts of the people because of Little Nell, because of the sorrows of Peggoty, and others of that character, so will Mark Twain live in all the things he has written. It is late, and most of you want to go home, but I am going to tell you a story in which an old colored woman told him, and which he, in his inimitable way, has told me.