Life on the Mississippi

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   CHAPTER 1 The River and Its History THE Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in a…
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   The river's earliest commerce was in great barges keelboats, broadhorns. They floated and sailed from the upper rivers to New Orleans, chan…
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   'I don't know how it done it,' says Ed. 'It done it though that's all I know about it.' 'Say what did they do with the bar'l?' says the Chi…
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   I soon discovered two things. One was that a vessel would not be likely to sail for the mouth of the Amazon under ten or twelve years; and…
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   'She'll not make it!' somebody whispered. The water grew shoaler and shoaler, by the leadsman's cries, till it was down to 'Eight-and-a-hal…
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   Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly…
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   'Let me take her, George; I've seen this place since you have, and it is so crooked that I reckon I can run it myself easier than I could t…
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   Such a memory as that is a great misfortune. To it, all occurrences are of the same size. Its possessor cannot distinguish an interesting c…
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   Very well, this growing swarm of new pilots presently began to undermine the wages, in order to get berths. Too late apparently the knights…
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    In the old times, whenever two fast boats started out on a race, with a big crowd of people looking on, it was inspiring to hear the crews…
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    I still remember the first time I ever entered the presence of that man. The boat had backed out from St. Louis and was 'straightening down…
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    The sight I saw when I entered that large hall was new and strange to me. Two long rows of prostrate forms more than forty, in all and ever…
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    We put ashore a well-dressed lady and gentleman, and two well-dressed, lady-like young girls, together with sundry Russia-leather bags. A s…
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    THE PILOT'S FIRST BATTLE He said It was the 7th of November. The fight began at seven in the morning. I was on the 'R. H. W. Hill.' Took ov…
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    As we approached famous and formidable Plum Point, darkness fell, but that was nothing to shudder about in these modern times. For now the…
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    'I collected all my friends about New Orleans at one of our friends' houses in that place, and we sat in council three days before we got a…
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    Helena occupies one of the prettiest situations on the Mississippi. Her perch is the last, the southernmost group of hills which one sees o…
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    Oh, my friend, the agony in that shrouded face was ecstasy to see! I thought of a new torture, and applied it assisting myself with a trifl…
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    A Mr. H. furnished some minor details of fact concerning this region which I would have hesitated to believe if I had not known him to be a…
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    All the passengers were on deck to look even the gamblers and Backus knew them all, and had afflicted them all with his pet topic. As I mov…
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    The Rosalie Yarn Mill, of Natchez, has a capacity of 6,000 spindles and 160 looms, and employs 100 hands. The Natchez Cotton Mills Company…
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    One even becomes reconciled to the cistern presently; this is a mighty cask, painted green, and sometimes a couple of stories high, which i…
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    But there are some infelicities. Such as 'like' for 'as,' and the addition of an 'at' where it isn't needed. I heard an educated gentleman…
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    One may observe, by one or two signs, how deeply that influence penetrated, and how strongly it holds. If one take up a Northern or Souther…
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    There were two hundred persons on board, and no life was lost but the pilot's. There used to be a monument to this young fellow, in that Me…
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    'Look here, have you got that drink yet?' A maniac, I judged, at first. But all in a flash I recognized him. I made an effort to blush that…
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    That 'nub' is so ingeniously, so casually, flung in, and immediately left there in the tail of the letter, undwelt upon, that an indifferen…
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    Making speeches without preparation is no gift of mine; and I was resolved to shirk any new opportunity, but in the next and larger Sunday-…
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    The town has a population of fifteen thousand now, and is progressing with a healthy growth. It was night, and we could not see details, fo…
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    'Next we have the Lion's Head and the Lioness's Head, carved by nature's hand, to adorn and dominate the beauteous stream; and then anon th…
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    We struck the home-trail now, and in a few hours were in that astonishing Chicago a city where they are always rubbing the lamp, and fetchi…
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    It has needed but little attention to make it perfectly obvious that the control of the Mississippi River, if undertaken at all, must be un…
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    The distance between them was very great, but the size of the animal caused him to be plainly seen. 'There,' said the leader, 'it is he to…