THE STORY: In THE TROUBLE BEGINS AT 8, it is five years later and Sam, after some success as a foreign correspondent, is down on his luck. The setting is a rough-and-ready San Francisco saloon, where Sam meets a rowdy friend from his newspaper days who (with some thought of personal profit in mind) talks him into undertaking the lecture tours that in time were to bring him fame and fortune.
Included in the collection
Twain Plus Twain.
