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all right more SAT reading questions for ya all right here we go more on Mark

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Twain described the apprentice engineers hair oil watch and watch chain primarily [text on screen]

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do what all right well the correct answer yeah

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it's a it's fashion it's it's bling it's MTV in those days he has oily hair and a [women walking with shopping bags, diamonds falling]

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watch what's not to like it's the pretension of these items that [text on screen]

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tweens trying to emphasize here he calls the silver watch ignorant in its brass [large silver watch]

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chain showy the criticism that Twain keeps on these items goes beyond a keen

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eye for fashion yeah so was ridiculing him their jealousy isn't pretty after

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off we learned later that well some steamboat positions are actually [kid eating sandwich]

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well-paid yes they they make Bank they really do see the bank of the river that

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was a joke all right never mind if Twain meant to demonstrate the unsavory [riverbank]

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aspects of life on the river well he probably wouldn't start by admitting

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that this guy is looking great

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