In 1848 Mark Twain became a printer’s apprentice for the Missouri Courier. Three years later his elder brother, Orion, bought the Hannibal Journal, and Twain began working for him as a typesetter. Occasionally, he contributed sketches and articles to the Journal. Some of his early sketches, such as “The Dandy Frightening the Squatter” (1852), circulated in local newspapers.
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