For many years, writer Samuel Langhorne Clemens - Mark Twain - was the world's most famous American, much more famous than the American president.
Tourists came to America to watch the Niagara Falls and writer Mark Twain.
Mark Twain, because of his, though sharp, but often long language, not once had to take challenges for a duel. Fortunately, everything ended well, both for Twain and his opponents.
One day, during a duel with the editor of a newspaper, Twain, who had never held a gun in his hands until that day, asked his second to show him "how it is done."
The second, a great shooter, without targeting, shot the bird that flew high in the sky.
A dead bird fell to the legs of an enemy preparing for a duel.
He looked at the bird first, and then on Twain, and asked the second, "Who did this?"
“Twen,” he replied. "You can't fight this man," said the frightened editor to his second, "it would be a suicide!" and, dropping the gun, he took an uneven step toward the standing Twain to ask him to accept his apologies.
On the day of his funeral, his contemporary, Wilber Nesbit, would say, “The only sorrow that Mark Twain has caused the world is that he is dead.”