[中学联盟]浙江省杭州市塘栖中学高中英语必修三教学素材：Unit3 The Million Pound Bank Note.docVIP

The ￡1,000,000 pound Bank-Note Mark Twain When I was twenty-seven years old, I was a mining-broker’s clerk in San Francisco, and an expert in all the details of stock traffic. I was alone in the world, and had nothing to depend upon but my wits and a clean reputation; but these were setting my feet in the road to eventual fortune, and I was content with the prospect.My time was my own after the afternoon board, Saturdays, and I was accustomed to put it in on a little sail-boat on the bay. One day I ventured too far, and was carried out to sea. Just at nightfall, when hope was about gone, I