Life on the Mississippi

Name: Life on the Mississippi
Author: Mark Twain

by Mark Twain

Pages: about 523
Category: History
Language: English
Reading time: 9.6 h at 250 wpm

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CHAPTER VI. Besieging the Pilot.--Taken along.--Spoiling a Nap.--Fishing for a Plantation.--“Points” on the River.--A Gorgeous Pilot-house.
CHAPTER VII. River Inspectors.--Cottonwoods and Plum Point.--Hat-Island Crossing.--Touch and Go.--It is a Go.--A Lightning Pilot
CHAPTER VIII. A Heavy-loaded Big Gun.--Sharp Sights in Darkness.--Abandoned to his Fate.--Scraping the Banks.--Learn him or Kill him.
CHAPTER IX. Shake the Reef.--Reason Dethroned.--The Face of the Water. --A Bewitching Scene.-Romance and Beauty.
CHAPTER X. Putting on Airs.--Taken down a bit.--Learn it as it is.--The River Rising.
CHAPTER XI. In thg Tract Business.--Effects of the Rise.--Plantations gone.--A Measureless Sea.--A Somnambulist Pilot.--Supernatural Piloting.--Nobody there.--All Saved.
CHAPTER XII. Low Water.--Yawl sounding.--Buoys and Lanterns.--Cubs and Soundings.--The Boat Sunk.--Seeking the Wrecked.
CHAPTER XIII. A Pilot's Memory.--Wages soaring.--A Universal Grasp.--Skill and Nerve.--Testing a “Cub.”--“Back her for Life.”--A Good Lesson.
CHAPTER XIV. Pilots and Captains.--High-priced Pilots.--Pilots in Demand.--A Whistler.--A cheap Trade.--Two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar Speed.
CHAPTER XV. New Pilots undermining the Pilots' Association.--Crutches and Wages.--Putting on Airs.--The Captains Weaken.--The Association Laughs.--The Secret Sign.--An Admirable System.--Rough on Outsiders. --A Tight Monopoly.--No Loophole.--The Railroads and the War.
CHAPTER XVI. All Aboard.--A Glorious Start.--Loaded to Win.--Bands and Bugles.--Boats and Boats.--Racers and Racing.
CHAPTER XVII. Cut-offs.--Ditching and Shooting.--Mississippi Changes.--A Wild Night.--Swearing and Guessing.--Stephen in Debt.--He Confuses his Creditors.--He makes a New Deal.--Will Pay them Alphabetically.
CHAPTER XVIII. Sharp Schooling.--Shadows.--I am Inspected.--Where did you get them Shoes?--Pull her Down.--I want to kill Brown.--I try to run her.--I am Complimented.
CHAPTER XIX. A Question of Veracity.--A Little Unpleasantness.--I have an Audience with the Captain.--Mr. Brown Retires.
CHAPTER XX. I become a Passenger.--We hear the News.--A Thunderous Crash.--They Stand to their Posts.--In the Blazing Sun.--A Grewsome Spectacle.--His Hour has Struck.
CHAPTER XLVI. Mardi-Gras.--The Mystic Crewe.--Rex and Relics.--Sir Walter Scott.--A World Set Back.--Titles and Decorations.--A Change.
CHAPTER XLVII. Uncle Remus.--The Children Disappointed.--We Read Aloud. --Mr. Cable and Jean au Poquelin.--Involuntary Trespass.--The Gilded Age.--An Impossible Combination.--The Owner Materializes and Protests.

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