# Jim Blaine — Roughing It character guide

> Jim Blaine in Roughing It by Mark Twain.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** one Jim Blaine, haunting Blaine, Blaine

**First appearance:** 0001-roughing-it

## Who they are

A garrulous old miner who tells a long, rambling story.

## Relationships

### [The Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/roughing_it_se/characters/narrator)

_social_

Jim Blaine is a garrulous old man whose rambling, digressive stories about his grandfather's ram become a comic highlight.

### [The Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/roughing_it_se/characters/narrator)

_social_

Jim Blaine is a garrulous old man whose rambling, digressive stories about his grandfather's ram become a comic highlight.

### [The Narrator](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/roughing_it_se/characters/narrator)

_social_

Jim Blaine is a garrulous old man whose rambling, digressive stories about his grandfather's ram become a comic highlight.

## In the story

### [LIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/roughing_it_se/chapters/liii)

The storyteller who, when sufficiently drunk, begins the tale of his grandfather's old ram but digresses endlessly until he falls asleep.

## Links

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