After leaving Nevada, Twain was a reporter in San Francisco, where he covered police reports and the local theatres. He was bored with it until, one night, he saw some Irish boys stone a Chinese meanwhile an Irish policeman did nothing to stop it. Twain wrote up the story, but it was not published. The editor said it would be too unpopular with the newspaper's Irish readership. After that, Twain had no enthusiasm for the work at all. His boss eventually asked him to resign.
Twain says he.....
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