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 184
xpenditure of an ounce ofenergy or a legitimate days work. And the victims break upand start anew for the still farther West, to take new farms, tobe engulfed in the maw^ of other sharks. One may not greatlypity the men themselves, for men are born to work and suffer; butthe women! God pity them.…
Merrick, George Byron · River life · River boats · Pilots and pilotage · Steam-navigation · Frontier and pioneer life
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