Europe and elsewhere, by Mark Twain [pseud.] [with an appreciation by Brander Matthews and an introduction by Albert Bigelow Paine]

MARJORIE FLEMING
This wee little child has a marvelous range of
interests. She reads philosophies, novels, baby books,
histories, the mighty poets-reads them with burning
interest, and frankly and freely criticizes them all;
she revels in storms, sunsets, cloud effects, scenery of
mountain, plain, ocean, and forest, and all the other
wonders of nature, and sets down her joy in them
all; she loves people, she detests people, according
to mood and circumstances, and delivers her opinion
of them, sometimes seasoned with attar of roses,
sometimes with vitriol; in games, and all kinds of
childish play she is an enthusiast; she adores animals,
adores them all; none is too forlorn to fail of favor
in her friendly eyes, no creature so humble that she
cannot find something in it on which to lavish her
caressing worship.
"I am going to-morrow to a delightfull place,
Braehead by name, belonging to Mrs. Crraford
[Crauford], where there is ducks cocks hens bobblyjocks 2 dogs 2 cats and swine which is delightful.
I think it is shocking to think that the dog and cat
should bear them and they are drowned after all."
She is a dear child, a bewitching little scamp; and
never dearer, I think, than when the devil has had
her in possession and she is breaking her stormy
little heart over the remembrance of it:
"I confess I have been very more like a little
young divil than a creature for when Isabella went
up stairs to teach me religion and my multiplication
and to be good and all my other lessons I stamped
with my foot and threw my new hat which she had
made on the ground and was sulky and was dread367