The £1,000,000 bank-note, and other new storiesTwain, Mark
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The £1,000,000 bank-note, and other new stories
Twain, Mark
American essays -- 19th century; American fiction -- 19th century; Humorous stories, American
many experiences of this sort—a dozen of them at least—that I am nearly
persuaded that inanimate objects do not confine their activities to
helping the clairvoyant, but do every now and then give the mental
telegraphist a lift.
The case of mental telegraphy which I am coming to now comes under I
don’t exactly know what head. I clipped it from one of our local papers
six or eight years ago. I know the details to be right and true, for the
story was told to me in the same form by one of the two persons
concerned (a clergyman of Hartford) at the time that the curious thing
happened:
‘A REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.—Strange coincidences make the most
interesting of stories and most curious of studies. Nobody can quite say
how they come about, but everybody appreciates the fact when they do
come, and it is seldom that any more complete and curious coincidence is
recorded of minor importance than the following, which is absolutely
true and occurred in this city:
‘At the time of the building of one of the finest residences of
Hartford, which is still a very new house, a local firm supplied the
wall-paper for certain rooms, contracting both to furnish and to put on
the paper. It happened that they did not calculate the size of one room
exactly right, and the paper of the design selected for it fell short
just half a roll. They asked for delay enough to send on to the
manufacturers for what was needed, and were told that there was no
especial hurry. It happened that the manufacturers had none on hand, and
had destroyed the blocks from which it was printed. They wrote that they
had a full list of the dealers to whom they had sold that paper, and
that they would write to each of these, and get from some of them a
roll. It might involve a delay of a couple of weeks, but they would
surely get it.
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