The steamer Ajax encountered a terrible storm on her down trip from San Francisco to the Sandwich Islands.  It tore her light spars and rigging all to shreds and splinters, upset all furniture that could be upset, and spilled passengers around and knocked them hither and thither with a perfect looseness.  For forty-eight hours no table could be set, and every body had to eat as best they might under the circumstances.  Most of the party went hungry, though, and attended to their praying.  But there was one set of "seven-up" players who nailed a card-table to the floor and stuck to their game through thick and thin. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature." His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), with the latter often called the "Great American Novel." Twain also wrote A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894), and co-wrote The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873) with Charles Dudley Warner.
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