Life on the Mississippi, Part 3.
Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi, Part 3.
Mark Twain · English
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 3.
Mark Twain · English
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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 meet a broad-horn there; and if he failed to be there, we would find him in a still worse locality, namely, the head of the chute, on the shoal water. And then there would be no end of profane cordialities exchanged. Sometimes, in the big riv
Life on the Mississippi, Part 3.
Mark Twain
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