<p>EXPLANATORY</p> <p>The Colonel Mulberry Sellers here re-introduced to the public is the same person who appeared as Eschol Sellers in the first edition of the tale entitled "The Gilded Age," years ago, and as Beriah Sellers in the subsequent editions of the same ebook, and finally as Mulberry Sellers in the drama played afterward by John T. Raymond.</p> <p>The name was changed from Eschol to Beriah to accommodate an Eschol Sellers who rose up out of the vasty deeps of uncharted space and preferred his request--backed by threat of a libel suit--then went his way appeased, and came no more. In the play Beriah had to be dropped to satisfy another member of the race, and Mulberry was substituted in the hope that the objectors would be tired by that time and let it pass unchallenged. So far it has occupied the field in peace; therefore we chance it again, feeling reasonably safe, this time, under shelter of the statute of limitations.</p> <p>MARK TWAIN.<br />Hartford, 1891.</p> <p>THE WEATHER IN THIS EBOOK.</p> <p>No weather will be found in this ebook. This is an attempt to pull a ebook through without weather. It being the first attempt of the kind in fictitious literature, it may prove a failure, but it seemed worth the while of some dare-devil person to try it, and the author was in just the mood.</p> <p>Many a reader who wanted to see a tale through was not able to do it because of delays on account of the weather. Nothing breaks up an author's progress like having