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Life on the Mississippi, Part 11Life on the Mississippi, Part 11.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,...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 10Life on the Mississippi, Part 10.THE largest annual event in New Orleans is a something which we arrived too late to samplethe Mardi-Gras festivities. I saw the procession of the Mystic Crew of Comus there, twenty-four years agowith knights and nobles and so on,...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 9Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.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 the open windows, but...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 8Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.CHAPTER XXXVI. The Professor Spins a Yarn.An Enthusiast in Cattle.He makes a Proposition.Loading Beeves at Acapulco.He was n't Raised to it. He is Roped In.His Dull Eyes Lit Up.Four Aces, you Ass! He does n't Care for the Gores....
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 7Life on the Mississippi, Part 7.CHAPTER XXXI. Mutinous Language.The Dead-house.Cast-iron German and Flexible English.A Dying Man's Confession.I am Bound and Gagged. I get Myself Free.I Begin my Search.The Man with one Thumb. Red Paint and White Paper.He Dropped on his Knees.Fright and Gratitude.I Fled...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 6Life on the Mississippi, Part 6.CHAPTER XXVIII. Swinging down the River.Named for Me.Plum Point again. Lights and Snag Boats.Infinite Changes.A Lawless River. Changes and Jetties.Uncle Mumford Testifies.Pegging the River.What the Government does.The Commission.Men and Theories."Had them Bad."Jews and Prices. TALK began to run upon...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 5Life on the Mississippi, Part 5.CHAPTER XXII. I try the Alias Business.Region of GoateesBoots begin to Appear. The River Man is Missing.The Young Man is Discouraged. Specimen Water.A Fine Quality of Smoke.A Supreme Mistake. We Inspect the Town.Desolation Way-traffic.A Wood-yard. IN due course I...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 4Life on the Mississippi, Part 4.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 one...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 3Life on the Mississippi, Part 3.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...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 2Life on the Mississippi, Part 2.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 chance to...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 1Life on the Mississippi, Part 1.CHAPTER I. The Mississippi is Well worth Reading about.It is Remarkable. Instead of Widening towards its Mouth, it grows Narrower.It Empties four hundred and six million Tons of Mud.It was First Seen in 1542. It is Older than some...
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HungerHunger This PG edition is based upon the eighth printing, published in September 1921 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. This edition is a bowdlerised version of the original 1899 translation, also by George Egerton. Since the death of Ibsen and Strindberg, Hamsun is undoubtedly...
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Early Letters of George William Curtis to John S. Dwight Brook Farm and ConcordEarly Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm and ConcordGeorge William Curtis was born in Providence, February 24, 1824. From the age of six to eleven he was in the school of C.W. Greene at Jamaica Plain, and then, until...
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Henry Fielding: a MemoirHenry Fielding: a Memoir - Including Newly Discovered Letters and Records with Illustrations from Contemporary PrintsNew material alone could justify any attempt to supplement the Fielding of Mr Austin Dobson. Such material has now come to light, and together with reliable facts collected by...
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Personal RecollectionsPersonal Recollections - Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great BritainI have given my best consideration to the arguments by which you support the demand for a few notices of events connected with my personal...
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Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. Brook Farm, Oak Hill, April 13th, 1841.. . . . Here I am in a polar Paradise! I know not how to interpret this aspect of nature,whether it be of good or evil omen to our enterprise....
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Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Salem, June 15, 1835.A walk down to the Juniper. The shore of the coves strewn with bunches of sea-weed, driven in by recent winds. Eel-grass, rolled and bundled up, and entangled with it,large marine vegetables, of an...
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Oliver Goldsmith: A BiographyOliver Goldsmith: A Biography In the course of a revised edition of my works I have come to a biographical sketch of Goldsmith, published several years since. It was written hastily, as introductory to a selection from his writings; and, though the facts contained...
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A Traveller in Little ThingsA Traveller in Little ThingsIt is surely a rare experience for an unclassified man, past middle age, to hear himself accurately and aptly described for the first time in his life by a perfect stranger! This thing happened to me at Bristol, some time...
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The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow")The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow") The matter which is given to the public in this book will speak with a voice of its own; it is necessary, however, to say a few words in advance to inform the...
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