Old times on the upper Mississippi : the recollections of a steamboat pilot from 1854 to 1863 (1909)
Merrick, George Byron, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Cleveland, Ohio : A.H. Clark Co. · leaf 140
dren, and Indians nottaxed, presupposing that a certain percentage of the passengersmoney would find its way into his tills, regardless of age, sex, orcolor. What his judgment would have been had one of the craftbeen chartered to carry a Sunday school picnic from St. Louisto St. Paul, will never be… … BARS AND BARKEEPERS 135 Ordinarily, the bartenders were young men of parts. Noneof them, so far as I know, were college graduates; but thencollege graduates were then mighty few in the West in any calling— and there were bars in plenty. It was required by theiremployers that they be pleasant and…
Merrick, George Byron · River life · River boats · Pilots and pilotage · Steam-navigation · Frontier and pioneer life
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