We continue with Scoop's non-reporting on the goings-on in Mark Twain's home town.

Scoff if you may, but you try to recap a story while discharging a firearm by mistake:

There were some days Hop must have said to himself "I should work on learning to draw country hats," but then loooked at the stack of work to do and thought "maybe I just won't set anything in the country any more."