I have an album containing the photographs of many well-known people from Europe as well as from America. I should much like to add yours to the number. If you will send it to me, I will send you mine and that of my wife in return.
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And I also imagine that there must be in Texas a delightful primitiveness of manners and good-fellowship.
A friend once related to me the following reminiscence:
I arrived one evening in a little Texas town, and asked for a bedroom at the hotel.
There was no bedroom to be had, but only a bed in a double-bedded room.
“Will that suit you?” said the clerk.
“Well, I don’t know,” I said hesitatingly. “Who is the other?”
“Oh, that’s all right,” said the clerk, “you may set your mind at rest on that subject.”
“Very well,” I replied, “I will take that bed.”