While Miss Capp, older than the Constitution, droned of checks and balances, I dutifully filled my notebook (college-lined), and prayed
On Oct. 19, 1865, the day after he finished the “Jumping Frog” story, Sam Clemens wrote to his brother and sister-in-law that he had at last found his vocation—”seriously scribbling to excite the laughter of God’s creatures.” Written across...
