“Illustrations to the most humorous story by Mark Twain, in which after the engagement the young man becomes 'pitted like a waffle-mound' with small-pox, loses the use of his limbs, his eyes, and his hair, and when M.T. is appealed to as to whether A. ought to marry what is left of the Y.M. ' Try it,' says M.T., ' it would have been a happy conceit if he had started with his neck and broken that first, but since he has tried to string himself out as far as possible you can't upbraid him for it, the best must be done and you must try and not feel exasperated at him.'”