Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
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Title: Life on the Mississippi
Author: Mark Twain
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Language: English
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LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
By Mark Twain
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapters
- Chapter 1 Ch.1
- CHAPTER I. The Mississippi is Well worth Reading about.--It is Ch.2
- CHAPTER II. La Salle again Appears, and so does a Cat-fish.--Buffaloes Ch.3
- CHAPTER III. A little History.--Early Commerce.--Coal Fleets and Timber Ch.4
- CHAPTER IV. The Boys' Ambition.--Village Scenes.--Steamboat Pictures. Ch.5
- CHAPTER VI. Besieging the Pilot.--Taken along.--Spoiling a Nap.--Fishing Ch.6
- CHAPTER VII. River Inspectors.--Cottonwoods and Plum Point.--Hat-Island Ch.7
- CHAPTER VIII. A Heavy-loaded Big Gun.--Sharp Sights in Ch.8
- CHAPTER IX. Shake the Reef.--Reason Dethroned.--The Face of the Water. Ch.9
- CHAPTER X. Putting on Airs.--Taken down a bit.--Learn it as it is.--The Ch.10
- CHAPTER XI. In thg Tract Business.--Effects of the Rise.--Plantations Ch.11
- CHAPTER XII. Low Water.--Yawl sounding.--Buoys and Lanterns.--Cubs and Ch.12
- CHAPTER XIII. A Pilot's Memory.--Wages soaring.--A Universal Ch.13
- CHAPTER XIV. Pilots and Captains.--High-priced Pilots.--Pilots in Ch.14
- CHAPTER XV. New Pilots undermining the Pilots' Association.--Crutches Ch.15
- CHAPTER XVI. All Aboard.--A Glorious Start.--Loaded to Win.--Bands and Ch.16
- CHAPTER XVII. Cut-offs.--Ditching and Shooting.--Mississippi Changes.--A Ch.17
- CHAPTER XVIII. Sharp Schooling.--Shadows.--I am Inspected.--Where did Ch.18
- CHAPTER XIX. A Question of Veracity.--A Little Unpleasantness.--I have Ch.19
- CHAPTER XX. I become a Passenger.--We hear the News.--A Thunderous Ch.20
- CHAPTER XXI. I get my License.--The War Begins.--I become a Ch.21
- CHAPTER XXII. I try the Alias Business.--Region of Goatees--Boots begin Ch.22
- CHAPTER XXIII. Old French Settlements.--We start for Memphis.--Young Ch.23
- CHAPTER XXIV. I receive some Information.--Alligator Boats.--Alligator Ch.24
- CHAPTER XXV. The Devil's Oven and Table.--A Bombshell falls.--No Ch.25
- CHAPTER XXVI. War Talk.--I Tilt over Backwards.--Fifteen Shot-holes.--A Ch.26
- CHAPTER XXVII. Tourists and their Note-books.--Captain Hall.--Mrs. Ch.27
- CHAPTER XXVIII. Swinging down the River.--Named for Me.--Plum Point Ch.28
- CHAPTER XXIX. Murel's Gang.--A Consummate Villain.--Getting Rid of Ch.29
- CHAPTER XXX. A Melancholy Picture.--On the Move.--River Gossip.--She Ch.30
- CHAPTER XXXI. Mutinous Language.--The Dead-house.--Cast-iron German and Ch.31
- CHAPTER XXXII. Ritter's Narrative.--A Question of Ch.32
- CHAPTER XXXIII. A Question of Division.--A Place where there was Ch.33
- CHAPTER XXXIV. An Austere Man.--A Mosquito Policy.--Facts dressed in Ch.34
- CHAPTER XXXV. Signs and Scars.--Cannon-thunder Rages.--Cave-dwellers. Ch.35
- CHAPTER XXXVI. The Professor Spins a Yarn.--An Enthusiast in Cattle.--He Ch.36
- CHAPTER XXXVII. A Terrible Disaster.--The “Gold Dust” explodes her Ch.37
- CHAPTER XXXVIII. Mr. Dickens has a Word.--Best Dwellings and Ch.38
- CHAPTER XXXIX. Rowdies and Beauty.--Ice as Jewelry.--Ice Ch.39
- CHAPTER XL. In Flowers, like a Bride.--A White-washed Castle.--A Ch.40
- CHAPTER XLI. The Approaches to New Orleans.--A Stirring Ch.41
- CHAPTER XLII. Beautiful Grave-yards.--Chameleons and Ch.42
- CHAPTER XLIII. I meet an Acquaintance.--Coffins and Swell Houses.--Mrs. Ch.43
- CHAPTER XLIV. French and Spanish Parts of the City.--Mr. Cable and the Ch.44
- CHAPTER XLV. “Waw” Talk.--Cock-Fighting.--Too Much to Bear.--Fine Ch.45
- CHAPTER XLVI. Mardi-Gras.--The Mystic Crewe.--Rex and Relics.--Sir Ch.46
- CHAPTER XLVII. Uncle Remus.--The Children Disappointed.--We Read Aloud. Ch.47
- CHAPTER XLVIII. Tight Curls and Springy Steps.--Steam-plows.--“No. I.” Ch.48
- CHAPTER XLIX. Pilot-Farmers.--Working on Shares.--Consequences.--Men who Ch.49
- CHAPTER L. A Patriarch.--Leaves from a Diary.--A Tongue-stopper.--The Ch.50
- CHAPTER LI. A Fresh “Cub” at the Wheel.--A Valley Storm.--Some Remarks Ch.51
- CHAPTER LII. I Collar an Idea.--A Graduate of Harvard.--A Penitent Ch.52
- CHAPTER LIII. A Masterly Retreat.--A Town at Rest.--Boyhood's Ch.53
- CHAPTER LIV. A Special Judgment.--Celestial Interest.--A Night of Ch.54
- CHAPTER LV. A second Generation.--A hundred thousand Tons of Saddles.--A Ch.55
- CHAPTER LVI. Perverted History--A Guilty Conscience.--A Supposititious Ch.56
- CHAPTER LVII. A Model Town.--A Town that Comes up to Blow in the Summer. Ch.57
- CHAPTER LVIII. An Independent Race.--Twenty-four-hour Towns.--Enchanting Ch.58
- CHAPTER LIX. Indian Traditions and Rattlesnakes.--A Three-ton Ch.59
- CHAPTER LX. The Head of Navigation.--From Roses to Snow.--Climatic Ch.60
- Chapter 61 Ch.61
- Chapter 62 Ch.62
- Chapter 63 Ch.63
- Chapter 64 Ch.64
- Chapter 65 Ch.65
- Chapter 66 Ch.66
- Chapter 67 Ch.67
- Chapter 68 Ch.68
- Chapter 69 Ch.69
- Chapter 70 Ch.70
- Chapter 71 Ch.71
- Chapter 72 Ch.72
- Chapter 73 Ch.73
- Chapter 74 Ch.74
- Chapter 75 Ch.75
- Chapter 76 Ch.76
- Chapter 77 Ch.77
- Chapter 78 Ch.78
- Chapter 79 Ch.79
- Chapter 80 Ch.80
- Chapter 81 Ch.81
- Chapter 82 Ch.82
- Chapter 83 Ch.83
- Chapter 84 Ch.84
- Chapter 85 Ch.85
- Chapter 86 Ch.86
- Chapter 87 Ch.87
- Chapter 88 Ch.88
- 1. Some believed in the Commission's scheme to arbitrarily and Ch.89
- 2. Some believed that the Commission's money ought to be spent only on Ch.90
- 3. Some believed that the higher you build your levee, the higher the Ch.91
- 4. Some believed in the scheme to relieve the river, in flood-time, by Ch.92
- 5. Some believed in the scheme of northern lake-reservoirs to replenish Ch.93
- Chapter 94 Ch.94
- Chapter 95 Ch.95
- Chapter 96 Ch.96
- introduction of me. The man's eyes opened slowly, and glittered wickedly Ch.97
- Chapter 98 Ch.98
- Chapter 99 Ch.99
- Chapter 100 Ch.100
- Chapter 101 Ch.101
- Chapter 102 Ch.102
- Chapter 103 Ch.103
- Chapter 104 Ch.104
- Chapter 105 Ch.105
- Chapter 106 Ch.106
- Chapter 107 Ch.107
- Chapter 108 Ch.108
- Chapter 109 Ch.109
- Chapter 110 Ch.110
- Chapter 111 Ch.111
- Chapter 112 Ch.112
- Chapter 113 Ch.113
- Chapter 114 Ch.114
- Chapter 115 Ch.115
- Chapter 116 Ch.116
- Chapter 117 Ch.117
- Chapter 118 Ch.118
- Chapter 119 Ch.119
- Chapter 120 Ch.120
- Chapter 121 Ch.121
- Chapter 122 Ch.122
- Chapter 123 Ch.123
- Chapter 124 Ch.124
- Chapter 125 Ch.125
- Chapter 126 Ch.126