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A CUP OF TEA by Katherine Mansfield ………………………….….40 3 UNIT ONE RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR by Mark Twain A few months ago I was nominated for Governorofthe great State of New York, to run against Mr. Stewart L. Woodford and Mr. John T, Hoffman on an independent ticket. <...> As I was looking listlessly over the papers at breakfast I came across this paragraph, and I may truly say I never was sо confounded before: “PERJURY,— Perhaps, now that Mr. Mark Twain is before the people as a candidate for Governor, he will condescend to explain how he came to be convicted of perjury by thirty-four witnesses in Wakawak, Cochin China, in 1863, the intent of which perjury being to rob a poor native widow and her helpless family of a meagre plantain-patch, their only stay and support in their bereavement and desolation. <...> Mr. Twain owes it to himself, as well as to the great people whose suffrages he asks, to clear this matter up. <...> And yet I can lay my hand upon the Book and say that I never slandered Governor Hoff-man's grandfather. <...> Three long years had passed over my head since I had tasted ale, beer, wine or liquor of any kind. [It shows what effect the times were having on me when I say that I saw myself confidently dubbed "Mr. Delirium Tremens Twain" in the next issue to that journal without a pang—notwithstanding I knew that with monotonous fidelity the paper would go on calling me so to the very end.] By this time anonymous letters were getting tobe an importantpart of my mail matter. <...> Gaze upon him—ponder him well— and then say if you can give your honest votes to a creature who has earned this dismal array of titles by his hideous crimes, and dare not open his mouth in denial of any one of them!" There was no possible way of getting out of it, and so in deep humiliation, I set about preparing to "answer" a mass of baseless charges and mean and wicked falsehoods. <...> Find sentences in the text in which the following word combinations are used. <...> Paraphrase the following using <...>