Mark Twain

November 30th (today) is the birthdate of Mark Twain. He was born in 1835.

That's a good enough reason for me to declare that all things Twain-y as this weeks'

Friday Theme.

Here's a simple description of the great man from the Otago Witness March 1899

I'm not entirely certain how we can represent Mark Twain in a Friday Theme way.

That moustache is magnificent. But then so are these





























That second one seems to be a very hairy fellow


As you will all know...
Mark Twain (or Samual Clemens) wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
If you google images for these two books you will encounter some of the more nauseatingly saccharine images I have been presented with in a long time.


However braces and dungerees do seem to feature.

Apples

According to that most marvelous of reference sites, Wikipedia, November 18th is the day William Tell shot an apple off his son's head.







So...



Friday's theme
will be William Tell and Apples.




The rest is up to you.



Of course Rosinni's overture might inspire,







or Spike Jones' version




Then there is that other apple...