Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.
Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.
Mark Twain · English
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.
Mark Twain · English
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Chapter 36 The Professor's Yarn IT was in the early days. I was not a college professor then. I was a humble-minded young land-surveyor, with the world before me—to survey, in case anybody wanted it done. I had a contract to survey a route for a great mining-ditch in California, and I was on my way thither, by sea—a three or four weeks' voyage. There were a good many passengers, but I had very little to say to them; reading and dreaming were my passions, and I avoided conversati
Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.
Mark Twain
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