On the night Samuel Clemens was born		the fictitious name "Mark Twain".
Samuel grew up in Hannibal,		was based on his friend Tom.
His fictional character Huckleberry Finn		becoming a steamboat captain.
When he was nine years old		at a printer's banquet.
When he was twelve he was		apprenticed at a newspaper.
He gave his first after-dinner speech		he stowed away on a steamboat.
He finally fulfilled his childhood dream of		Missouri beside the Mississippi River.
He began to write for a newspaper using		Halley's comet was just passing by.
Twain had an opportunity to write		a series of stories from Hawaii.
In writing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer		Halley's comet was visible in the sky.
When his wife Livy became ill		they moved to Italy to impove her health.
When Samuel Clemens died		he wrote about himself as the main character.