The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-12-23
MARK TWAIlTS LATEST.
OF CAMELOT-kDFENTUR OF CON
NECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR's

| Last nights monthly meeting or the
! Military Service Institution, on Gov
ernor's island, was made entertaining
by Mark Twain, who read & paper, the
announcement Of which caused The
[ shronging OF the old museum nal.
Gen ". [. Sherman and Gen. Scho
tield were present. Gen James 5
| Fry presided.
Mr.. Clemens said that that which
he was sbou, 10 read was part Of ?
still uncolnpleted book, of which b
could give the frs chapter by rav CT
explanation, and follow it with select
ed fragments, ''or outline the rest Of
Il III bulk, So to speak, or as the dying
cowboy admonished his spiritual &C
wiser to do, Just leave out the details.
and heave IL the bottom facts"
Mr.. Clemens story IS the aatCbio
eraphy Of Sir Robert Smith, Of Came
lot, one of King Arthur knights, form
eriy manfscturar q Hartford, Conn.
Robert Smith says Of himself:
Il am . Yankee of the Yankees, a
practical man, nearly barren " senti
Ilent or poetry-in other words, my
father vas blacksmith, ny uncle
vac q horse doctor, and [ was both.
Then / went oy4r to the great arms
factory and learned ny real trade
earned 10 MAKE every hing, guns, re
Yol-ers, cannon, boilers, engines, cleo
tric machines, anything, in short, that
anybody ~anted anywhere in the
world. / became head boss
and had a thousand men under me.
Well, q nAH ike that i. full of fight
that goes without saying. With a
Thousand rough men under one, one
nsS plenty of that sort OF amusement.
"W ell, Ut last I met my match; /
got ny dose. It ~a5 during misun-
doqstaudinR conducted with iron crow
bsrs with fellow VIC used to call
Hercules. He laid me out with a crush
er alongside the head that made every
jolnt OF my skull iap over on It's neigh
Dor, ard then the world went out in
. darkness aud felt nothing more for
while. and when / came TO again /
vss stsnding under an oak tree and
The factory vas gone.
otandlng under az oak tree on the
grass with beautiful broad country, a
landscape spread out before me-ail
10 myself No, not quite, entirely to
myself. There was fellow on a
b0rse looking at me-a fellow fresh
cat Cf q picture book. He had hel-
met ON like a cheese-box with Sits in
/ it and be carried shield and a sword
and q prodisious spear. And his
morse had armor on, too, and gorgeous
s;lkon trappings, red and green, that
, nuns around him ike a Uedeown
to the ground And this appariJion
said to me:
"'F air sir Will you joust?
SAID /, viii I NhichH
"'WiH you jou't2 Viii break
ta7ce for land or lady|
SAID l, w nat sIe you giving me?
You so along back to your circus, OF
III report you.'
Now what does thi. fellow do but
all back = coupe Of Hundred yards
and then come fitting at me, as hard
as lie could drive, ms cheese -Dox
down close and his lOns spear pointed
strsignt at me. [ saw he meant bus
mess, 80 | vas up tie tree when he
arrived. Well, he aLowed / 'as his
property; the captive OF ms spear.
\ eli, LAere vas sr.ument Oh LIS sldt
aud the bulk II the advantage, 81 /
aXod ap Al agreement L Was to 60
along With him, Gni he wasn't TO iiIirJ
ne. So / Came down, and We march
u comfortably alous through glades
4nd over brooks that j could not re
member to have seen before. 1t puZ-
zicd NE ever 81 much, and yet we
] iidn't come TO any CIRCUS, SO L gave
40 the idea of circus, and concluded
ae WAS from al asylum, 80 L Wa. up a
stump, as you may say
And So the two wander on to
gather, and amid scenes Of human life
mat aiord the author many emporium
dies for quaint puiIosophlc contrasts
and dry humOr, until they came to
Ja2DelOt. to the court OF King Arthur
rancifui and CURIOUS are the retiec-
ions Of the transported Yankee about
hat place which he at first thinks
must be the asyluna-iu ito country OF
IT, reposeful sum. .nsr landscape, as
: lovely as 6 dream and lonesome as
Sunday; whore the ajr was full OF the
smell Of flowers end the buzzing of
.ubecga and tie tN-itlesing vi birds,
4l& there were 10 people or wagons
" llfo OF anything gong on.
Very vlvdly he poEtrays the scene
at Camelot, where kIng Arthur, with
MS knights, sits 81 q round table as
Big as circus ring, and three hun
ired dogs tight Tor bones around them,
wHi4e the musicians ere IN one gallery
nigh aloft and the ladies III another
But Deiore he gets IN there he seeks
information from plain looking man
! ii the outer court, saying to him:
Now, my friend, do me kindness,
Teli me, do you belong 10 the asyIam
! or are you just here on visit, or
something ike thstE And be looked
.ae over stupidity and said: Marry!
Eair sir OH I said, That will do
3 l guess you are & patient" 10
! another he said: ."NOw, ny friend,
# I could see the head keeper just 8
minute, only just l. minute He said
/ .Prithee do not let me- Let you what ?
DO not hinder me, # the word please
thee BETTER and he was an under cook,
/ and had no time 10 talk, though he
would Ike to another time. for il
would just comfort his very liver to
! know where / got my clothes"
Then another, lad, came to him
| saying that be was page. "Oh! go
along l said; you amt more than a
| paragraph The page. happened to
, mention that he was born III the be-
ginning OF the year 5I3.
1T made the cold chills creep over
me. / stopped and said, ht5le FAINT
y, Now. maybe | DIDN'T hear you Just
IlghI Would you say that again, and
say it slow? NLaJ year did you say
Il WASP The year 5l3'
"And according to your notions
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