Mark Twain: When I was a boy

"When I was a little boy, one unquenchable desire possessed me and my friends in our little town on the west bank of the Mississippi: to become a crew member on a steamship," Samuel Clemens recalls years later. The name of this man probably means nothing to most of us, but his literary pseudonym Mark Twain is known to the whole world. From Twain's memoir, he reads: Martin Růžek.