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 74
at one end, and the other, shaped something like a canoepaddle, was bored full of quarter-inch holes. When the case wasone of mere sluggishness on the part of one of the hands, a lighttap with the flat part of this instrument was enough to inspireactivity. When the case was one of moroseness or… … THE MATE 69 sharp edge of the paddle on a mans head left nothing more to bedone with that man until he came to. With a revolver in hisleft hand and his paddle in his right, he would jump into themiddle of a gang of drunken, mutinous men, and striking rightand left would intimidate or disable the…
Merrick, George Byron · River life · River boats · Pilots and pilotage · Steam-navigation · Frontier and pioneer life
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