title: The Kid's Running Journal! Getting Started on the Right Foot
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  ## Editorial Wild Oats
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Mark Twain
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **Editorial Wild Oats**
  
  
  
  
  
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  **BY**
  
  
  
  
  
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  **Mark Twain**
  
  
  
  
  
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  ![](images/www.gutenberg.orgfiles1948419484himagesill005tn.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **My First Literary Venture**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I was a very smart child at the age of thirteen—an unusually smart child, I
  thought at the time. It was then that I did my first newspaper scribbling, and
  most unexpectedly to me it stirred up a fine sensation in the community. It
  did, indeed, and I was very proud of it, too. I was a printer's "devil," and a
  progressive and aspiring one. My uncle had me on his paper (the _Weekly
  Hannibal Journal_ , two dollars a year, in advance—five hundred subscribers,
  and they paid in cord-wood, cabbages, and unmarketable turnips), and on a
  lucky summer's day he left town to be gone a week, and asked me if I thought I
  could edit one issue of the paper judiciously. Ah! didn't I want to try!
  Higgins was the editor on the 