[Chapters from My Autobiography by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookChapters from My Autobiography CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY 5/23
The world was New York City, and there was a little World's Fair there.
It had just been opened where the great reservoir afterward was, and where the sumptuous public library is now being built--Fifth Avenue and Forty-second Street. I arrived in New York with two or three dollars in pocket change and a ten-dollar bank-bill concealed in the lining of my coat.
I got work at villainous wages in the establishment of John A.Gray and Green in Cliff Street, and I found board in a sufficiently villainous mechanics' boarding-house in Duane Street.
The firm paid my wages in wildcat money at its face value, and my week's wage merely sufficed to pay board and lodging.
By and by I went to Philadelphia and worked there some months as a "sub" on the "Inquirer" and the "Public Ledger." Finally I made a flying trip to Washington to see the sights there, and in 1854 I went back to the Mississippi Valley, sitting upright in the smoking-car two or three days and nights.
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