We were getting cold so we decided to go back.
Every now and then, young readers would write to ask how I could, as I put it, make improvements on a good many things in this history that had been told me by fine honest Americans, and how I could truthen up facts. I gave them elaborate metaphysical explanations which I'm not sure that they — or even I — completely understood. If my claims made sense, I suppose that those technical facts about heroes' occupations and background historical facts deserve some credit. Also, I like to believe that I truthened up my history by satirizing some vulnerable aspects of American life; for example, the way some entrepreneurs interlace smug piety and sharp practices; the crassness and cruelty of some hair-trigger toughs; Johnny Appleseed's self-righteousness and sentimentality; undemocratic practices; super efficiency combined with inhumanity and pretentiousness.
make improvements
a good many things in this history
by fine honest Americans,
truthen up
Lupus Protospatharius' 'more than 500 knights' reads more realistically, and this number confirms that the Italo-Norman contingent was, indeed, one of the smallest in the crusading army.
Thy testamental cup I take, / And thus remember thee.
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