![]() Soundings.-The Boat Sunk.-Seeking the Wrecked.ĬHAPTER XIII. Low Water.-Yawl sounding.-Buoys and Lanterns.-Cubs and Gone.-A Measureless Sea.-A Somnambulist Pilot.-SupernaturalĬHAPTER XII. In thg Tract Business.-Effects of the Rise.-Plantations Putting on Airs.-Taken down a bit.-Learn it as it is.-TheĬHAPTER XI. A Bewitching Scene.-Romance and Beauty.ĬHAPTER X. Shake the Reef.-Reason Dethroned.-The Face of the Water. ![]() A Heavy-loaded Big Gun.-Sharp Sights inĭarkness.-Abandoned to his Fate.-Scraping the Banks.-Learn him orĬHAPTER IX. River Inspectors.-Cottonwoods and Plum Point.-Hat-IslandĬrossing.-Touch and Go.-It is a Go.-A Lightning PilotĬHAPTER VIII. Besieging the Pilot.-Taken along.-Spoiling a Nap.-Fishingįor a Plantation.-“Points” on the River.-A Gorgeous Pilot-house.ĬHAPTER VII. A Traveller.-A Lively Talker.-A Wild-cat VictimĬHAPTER VI. The Boys' Ambition.-Village Scenes.-Steamboat Pictures.ĬHAPTER V. Proposed.-I give an Account of Myself.-Released.ĬHAPTER IV. Weeps.-The Mystery settled.-Chaff.-I am Discovered.-Some Art-work ![]() Lofty Tumbling.-The Wash-up.-Business and Statistics.-Mysteriousīand.-Thunder and Lightning.-The Captain speaks.-Allbright Trouble begins.-Tall Talk.-The Child of Calamity.-Ground and Rafts.-We start on a Voyage.-I seek Information.-Some Music.-The A little History.-Early Commerce.-Coal Fleets and Timber Some Curious Performances-not Early English.-Natchez, or the Site ofĬHAPTER III. Waters “does not Flow into the Pacific.-More History and Indians. La Salle again Appears, and so does a Cat-fish.-BuffaloesĪlso.-Some Indian Paintings are Seen on the Rocks.-“The Father of Half-breeds chip in.-La Salle Thinks he will Take a Hand.ĬHAPTER II. History.-De Soto has the Pull.-Older than the Atlantic Coast.-Some ![]() Was First Seen in 1542.-It is Older than some Pages in European ![]() Narrower.-It Empties four hundred and six million Tons of Mud.-It Remarkable.-Instead of Widening towards its Mouth, it grows The Mississippi is Well worth Reading about.-It is current number of the chaste and innocuous Godey's 'Lady's Book,' with painted fashion-plate of wax-figure women with mouths all alike-lips and eyelids the same size-each five-foot woman with a two-inch wedge sticking from under her dress and letting-on to be half of her foot."- Life on the Mississippi (1883) by Mark TwainĬHAPTER I. Within, an uncarpeted hall, of planed boards opening out of it, a parlor, fifteen feet by fifteen-in some instances five or ten feet larger ingrain carpet mahogany center-table lamp on it, with green-paper shade-standing on a gridiron, so to speak, made of high-colored yarns, by the young ladies of the house, and called a lamp-mat several books, piled and disposed, with cast-iron exactness, according to an inherited and unchangeable plan among them, Tupper, much penciled also, ' Friendship's Offering,' and ' Affection's Wreath,' with their sappy inanities illustrated in die-away mezzotints also, Ossian ' Alonzo and Melissa:' maybe ' Ivanhoe:' also ' Album,' full of original 'poetry' of the Thou-hast-wounded-the-spirit-that-loved-thee breed two or three goody-goody works-'Shepherd of Salisbury Plain,' etc. It is easy to describe it: large grassy yard, with paling fence painted white-in fair repair brick walk from gate to door big, square, two-story 'frame' house, painted white and porticoed like a Grecian temple-with this difference, that the imposing fluted columns and Corinthian capitals were a pathetic sham, being made of white pine, and painted iron knocker brass door knob-discolored, for lack of polishing. "Every town and village along that vast stretch of double river-frontage had a best dwelling, finest dwelling, mansion,-the home of its wealthiest and most conspicuous citizen. ![]()
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