THE ‘BODY OF THE NATION’ BUT the basin of the Mississippi is the BODY OF THE NATION. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form
Produced by David Widger from a previous etext produced by Graham Allan LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN THE ‘BODY OF THE NATION’ BUT the basin of the Mississippi is the BODY OF THE NATION. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive
Produced by David Widger LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 1. THE ‘BODY OF THE NATION’ BUT the basin of the Mississippi is the BODY OF THE NATION. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of
Produced by David Widger LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 2. Chapter 6 A Cub-pilot’s Experience WHAT with lying on the rocks four days at Louisville, and some other delays, the poor old ‘Paul Jones’ fooled away about two weeks in making the voyage from Cincinnati to New Orleans. This gave me a
Produced by David Widger LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 3. Chapter 11 The River Rises DURING this big rise these small-fry craft were an intolerable nuisance. We were running chute after chute,–a new world to me,–and if there was a particularly cramped place in a chute, we would be pretty sure to
Produced by David Widger LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 4. Chapter 16 Racing Days IT was always the custom for the boats to leave New Orleans between four and five o’clock in the afternoon. From three o’clock onward they would be burning rosin and pitch pine (the sign of preparation), and so
Produced by David Widger LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 6. Chapter 26 Under Fire TALK began to run upon the war now, for we were getting down into the upper edge of the former battle-stretch by this time. Columbus was just behind us, so there was a good deal said about the
Produced by David Widger LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 7. Chapter 31 A Thumb-print and What Came of It WE were approaching Napoleon, Arkansas. So I began to think about my errand there. Time, noonday; and bright and sunny. This was bad–not best, anyway; for mine was not (preferably) a noonday kind
Produced by David Widger LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 9. Chapter 41 The Metropolis of the South THE approaches to New Orleans were familiar; general aspects were unchanged. When one goes flying through London along a railway propped in the air on tall arches, he may inspect miles of upper bedrooms through
Produced by David Widger LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 11. Chapter 51 Reminiscences WE left for St. Louis in the ‘City of Baton Rouge,’ on a delightfully hot day, but with the main purpose of my visit but lamely accomplished. I had hoped to hunt up and talk with a hundred steamboatmen,
Produced by David Widger LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI BY MARK TWAIN Part 12. Chapter 56 A Question of Law THE slaughter-house is gone from the mouth of Bear Creek and so is the small jail (or ‘calaboose’) which once stood in its neighborhood. A citizen asked, ‘Do you remember when Jimmy Finn, the town drunkard,
This etext was produced by David Widger MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY By Albert Bigelow Paine VOLUME I, Part 1: 1835-1866 MARK TWAIN A BIOGRAPHY THE PERSONAL AND LITERARY LIFE OF SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE TO CLARA CLEMENS GABRILOWITSCH WHO STEADILY UPHELD THE AUTHOR’S PURPOSE TO WRITE HISTORY RATHER THAN EULOGY AS THE
