The Autobiography of Mark Twain
What was Twain made fun of for when he first went to school?
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When Twain first went school at the age of seven, he was humiliated when his peers criticized him for not knowing how to chew tobacco. Even learning to smoke a pipe, he says, couldn't improve his reputation.