Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

CHAPTER III. A little History.--Early Commerce.--Coal Fleets and Timber

Rafts.--We start on a Voyage.--I seek Information.--Some Music.--The Trouble begins.--Tall Talk.--The Child of Calamity.--Ground and lofty Tumbling.--The Wash-up.--Business and Statistics.--Mysterious Band.--Thunder and Lightning.--The Captain speaks.--Allbright weeps.--The Mystery settled.--Chaff.--I am Discovered.--Some Art-work proposed.--I give an Account of Myself.--Released.

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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