Thereafter Browne worked at a number of newspapers and printing houses throughout rural New England, picking up some education at the Norway Liberal Institute in Norway, Maine, and on occasion probably writing fillers and small items.
Browne's first substantial writing, however, was for The Carpet-Bag, a Boston weekly intended, as the prospectus of its initial issue promised, to "promote cheerfulness" among its readers. Benjamin P. Shillaber, editor of The Carpet-Bag, was best known for authoring the popular Mrs. Partington Papers, and he numbered among his contributors such well-known humorists of the day as Charles G. Halpine, John Townsend Trowbridge, and Louise Chandler Moulton. Shillaber also furthered the careers of promising younger humorists, publishing the first known work of Samuel Langhorne Clemens and George Horatio Derby.
Browne initially began employment on the printing staff of The Carpet-Bag, but although he was still in his teens, he soon started writing humor for the magazine on a fairly regular basis. Under the pseudonym Chub or Lieut. Chubb, the term Chub serving both as a kind of acronym for the author's name and as an ironic allusion to his skinniness, Browne wrote ten comic pieces for The Carpet-Bag between 27 December 1851 and 25 December 1852.
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