Mark Twain's Report Of An Accident

Mark Twaiii recently tried his hand writing up a distressing accident for a Boston local paper, and tliis is liow he did it : Last evening abont 6 o'clock, as Mr. William Schuyler, an old and respected citizen of South Park, was leaving his residence to go dowu town, as has been his usual custom for many years, with the exception of only a short interval in the spring of 1850, during which he was contined to his bed by iujuries receivedin attempting to stop a runaway horse by tholightlessly throwing up his hands and shouting, wnieh, if he had done 130 even a tingle moment sooner, must invevitably have frightened the animal still more instead of oheeking its speed, although disastroua enough to himself as it was and was rendered more melancholy anl distressing by reason of the presence of his wife's niother, who was thero and saw the occurrenoe, notwithstanding it is at least likely, though not necesaaiily so, thateha should be reconnoitering in another direction when incidente occur, not being vivacious and on the lookout, as a general thing, but even in the reverse, as her motheris said to havo stated, who is no more, but died in the f uil hope of a blessed resurreotion upward of three years ago, aged eightysix, being a Christinn woman without guile, as it were, in property, in of the fire of 1849, which had destroyed I evory solitary thing she had in the woild. But siich is Jilo. Liet us all tako v:ii'(iing by thiK Bclemn oocurrence, and let us endeavor so to conduct oursolves f'-ut whcn we come to Uie we can do it. Let us place our huiid.s upou our iieartct, and say with earnesLnt)BS and sincerity thaf : from. this day fut Ui o will beware of : intoxicating bowl.