Before Justice of the Peace Alfred Barstow Sam pleads poverty. MT&OC pg 108
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Sam gets drunk
I’ll show you debauched! His correspondent rival – the SF reporter for the Gold Hill Daily News a guy named Albert Evans — they had been trading barbs in their respective papers like Sam had done with the Unreliable back in the day — wrote that Twain was arrested, spent the night in jail after […]
Orion refuses the offer
On the exact date that Sam said he would kill himself if he wasn’t out of debt yet, Orion said that he wouldn’t debauch the country with wine and he was uncertain that Camp would treat fairly the immigrants imported to work the land. That was Sam’s ticket home. And Orion’s moral superiority fucked him. […]
