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Mark Twain, who wrote the story we’re going to read, traveled quite a lot often because circumstamces, usually (36) circumstances, forced him to. He was born in Florida, Missouri in 1835 and moved to Hannibal, Missouri with his family when he was about 4 years old. Most people think he was born in Hannibal but that isn’t true. After his father died when he was about 12, Twain worked in Hannibal for a while and then left, so he could (37) more money. He worked for a while as a typesetter on (38) newspapers and then got a job as a river (39) on the Mississippi. Twain loved this job and many of his books show it. The river job didn’t last, however, because of the (40) of the Civil War. Twain, was in the (41) Army for just 2 weeks and then he and his whole (42) went west to get away from the war and the army. In Nevada and California Twain (43) for silver and gold without much luck, but did succeed as a writer. (44) . (45) . (46) .