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MUSEUM

Finally a cavern was discovered with these inscriptions upon it:
WATERSIDE MUSEUM.
Open at All Hours.
Admission 50 cents.
WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF
WAX-WORKS, ANCIENT FOSSILS, ETC.

Professor Woodlouse affirmed that the word "Museum" was equivalent to the phrase "lumgath molo," or "Burial Place."
- "Some Learned Fables, For Good Old Boys And Girls, Part Second"

Twain museum
Photo of Mark Twain Museum in Hannibal, Missouri by
Dave Thomson

 

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