![]() ![]() By the Shadow of Death, but he's a lightning pilot!.Your true pilot cares nothing about anything on earth but the river, and his pride in his occupation surpasses the pride of kings.I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did.Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales! I scratch my head with the lightning, and purr myself to sleep with the thunder!.Sired by a hurricane, dam'd by an earthquake.The world and the books are so accustomed to use, and over-use, the word 'new' in connection with our country, that we early get and permanently retain the impression that there is nothing old about it. ![]() ![]() It seems safe to say that it is also the crookedest river in the world, since in one part of its journey it uses up one thousand three hundred miles to cover the same ground that the crow would fly over in six hundred and seventy-five. Considering the Missouri its main branch, it is the longest river in the world - four thousand three hundred miles. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways remarkable. The Mississippi is well worth reading about.Life on the Mississippi is an 1883 memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. ![]()
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