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A Very Common Complaint With Robert Brock protraying Mark Twain on Sunday evenings, July 7, 14, and 21, at 7pmCT, at V.P. Henry Auditorium, it was appropriate that JIM rescues this wonderful entry about Mark Twain from the history bin By JIM I rarely go a-journeying through the musty, dusty pages of the News these days, but I did cast a rheumy, bloodshot orb that direction today and re-encountered a wonderful little filler in the July 6, 1910 edition. It seems (or so spake the News) that Mark Twain, during his reign as editor of the Virginia City (Nevada) Times, would on occasion spice up the paper by penning answers to fictitious questions posed by equally fictitious readers. On one occasion, an anguished note signed "Poultry" queried thus: "Dear Editor--What is the matter with my chickens? Every morning I find two or three of them laid out cold and stiff on the hencoop door. What treatment do you advise?"And came the straight-faced reply from the other side of Twain's mouth: "It is plain from your letter, your hens are suffering from death. This is a very common complaint. For it we would prescribe burial."-JIM This story was posted on 2013-07-02 07:18:30
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