The River's Children: An Idyl of the Mississippi
The River's Children: An Idyl of the Mississippi

The River's Children: An Idyl of the Mississippi

The River's Children: An Idyl of the MississippiThe Mississippi was flaunting itself in the face of opposition...
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Author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery,1856-1917
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The River's Children: An Idyl of the Mississippi

The River's Children: An Idyl of the Mississippi

€6,17
The River's Children: An Idyl of the Mississippi

The River's Children: An Idyl of the Mississippi

€6,17
Author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery,1856-1917
Format: eBook
Language: English
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The River's Children: An Idyl of the Mississippi

The Mississippi was flaunting itself in the face of opposition along its southern banks. It had carried much before it in its downward path ere it reached New Orleans. A plantation here, a low-lying settlement there, a cotton-field in bloom under its brim, had challenged its waters and been taken in, and there was desolation in its wake. In certain weak places above and below the city, gangs of mennegroes mostlyworked day and night, reinforcing suspicious danger-points with pickax and spade. At one place an imminent crevasse threatened life and property to such a degree that the workers were conscripted and held to their posts by promises of high wages, abetted by periodical passage along the line of a bucket and gourd dipper. There was apparently nothing worse than mirth and song in the bucket. Concocted to appeal to the festive instinct of the dark laborers as much as to steady their hands and sustain courage, it was colored a fine pink and floated ice lumps and bits of lemon when served. Yet there was a quality in it which warmed as it went, and spurred pickax and spade to do their bestspurred their wielders often to jest and song, too, for there was scarcely a secure place even along the brimming bank where one might not, by listening, catch the sound of laughter or of rhythmic voices: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 34416
Author: Stuart, Ruth McEnery
Release Date: Nov 23, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Edwards, H. C. (Harry C.), 1868-1922

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