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 252
of the corners of mouthand eyes, for all the world like the teacher of old. The very first minute I met the swing of the gang-plankderrick (there is no jack stafif on the modern steamboat, moresthe pity), with two or three spokes when one would have beena plenty, yawing the boat round like a toad…
Merrick, George Byron · River life · River boats · Pilots and pilotage · Steam-navigation · Frontier and pioneer life
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