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 206
which his father gavehim, and departed for Canada. Not finding things just to histaste in that British appanage, possibly not rapid enough for adivinity student, he promptly crossed the line and began makinghimself into a Yankee, in all except citizenship. In his wanderings he finally reached… … I f i^ A STRAY NOBLEMAN 199 culated to educate and instruct an embryo clergyman in the waysof the world, and a particularly wicked world at that, it wasOshkosh before the war. That he saw some of the fun whichthe boys enjoyed in those days was evidenced by the fund of storiesrelating to that place…
Merrick, George Byron · River life · River boats · Pilots and pilotage · Steam-navigation · Frontier and pioneer life
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