t. In their eyes, jobs that were located on land, could never amount to the job of a steam boatman.
             I first wanted to be a cabin-boy, so that I could come out with a white apron on and shake a table-cloth over the side, where all my old comrades could see me; later I thought I would rather be the deck-hand who stood on the end of the stage-plank with the coil of rope in his hand, because he was particularly conspicuous. But these were only daydreams--they were too heavenly to be contemplated as real possibilities (Twain 328).
             Even the person who shakes the crumbs off of the steamship's dining room tablecloths was a figure of awe. Twain's memories about the celebrity status of the boat's workers may be very accurate because it seems like Twain and the other boys in his village viewed working on a steamship the same way. It possibly can be related to the way children of today see firemen and how they get to ride on a fi
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