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Updated: August 6, 2026

Preachin was his nateral gait, but he warn't a man to lay back and twidle his thumbs because there didn't happen to be nothin' doin' in his own especial line no, sir, he was a man who would meander forth and stir up something for hisself. And so he was cleaned out as you may say, and he struck the home-trail, cheerful but flat broke.

Mark Twain - Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 6 (1907-1910)

Preachin was his nateral gait, but he warn't a man to lay back a twidle his thumbs because there didn't happen to be nothin' do in his own especial line no, sir, he was a man who would meander forth and stir up something for hisself. And so he was cleaned out as you may say, and he struck the home-trail, cheerful but flat broke.

Mark Twain - Sketches New and Old, Part 2.