And then if you will go on until you know every street crossing, the character, size, and position of the crossing-stones, and the varying depth of mud in each of those numberless places, you will have some idea of what the pilot must know in order to keep a Mississippi steamer out of trouble. Next, if you will take half of the signs in that long street, and change their places once a month, and still manage to know their new positions accurately on dark nights. and keep up with these repeated changes without making any mistakes, you will understand what is required of a pilot's peerless memory by the fickle Mississippi.
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Mark Twain began his career in letters as a printer's apprentice at the age of 12. He worked as a typesetter and hack writer until a trip down the Mississippi inspired him to become a steamboat pilot. Twain was a popular humorist, a failed silver miner, an inventor, a pacifist anti-imperialist, and a vegetarian. He had a strong interest in the paranormal. Twain's novel Huckleberry Finn"" has profoundly influenced the development of American storytelling.""
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WHEN I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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WHEN I was a boy, there was but one permanent ambition among my comrades in our village on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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- Mark Twain, A Literary Life by Everett Emerson on 9 pages
- Mark Twain and the Novel: The Double-Cross of Authority (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Lawrence Howe on 9 pages
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