Mark Twain 
Merry Tales 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Fair and right that you listen a little moment to one who started out to do something in it, but didn’t? Thousands entered the war, got just a taste of it, ‘and then stepped out again, permanently. These, by their very numbers, are respectable, and are therefore entitled to a sort of voice, – not a loud one, but a modest one; not a boastful one, but an apologetic one. They ought not to be allowed much space among better people – people who did some thing – I grant that; but they ought at least to be allowed to state why they didn’t do any thing, and also to explain the process by which they didn’t do anything. Surely this kind of.