LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, Part 10.
BY MARK TWAIN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
[CHAPTER XLVI.] Mardi-Gras.—The Mystic Crewe.—Rex and Relics.—Sir Walter Scott. —A World Set Back.—Titles and Decorations.—A Change. [CHAPTER XLVII.] Uncle Remus.—The Children Disappointed.—We Read Aloud. —Mr. Cable and Jean au Poquelin.—Involuntary Trespass.—The Gilded Age.—An Impossible Combination.—The Owner Materializes and Protests. [CHAPTER XLVIII.] Tight Curls and Springy Steps.—Steam-plows.—"No. I." Sugar. —A Frankenstein Laugh.—Spiritual Postage.—A Place where there are no Butchers or Plumbers.—Idiotic Spasms. [CHAPTER XLIX.] Pilot-Farmers.—Working on Shares.—Consequences.—Men who Stick to their Posts.—He saw what he would do.—A Day after the Fair. [CHAPTER L.] A Patriarch.—Leaves from a Diary.—A Tongue-stopper.—The Ancient Mariner.—Pilloried in Print.—Petrified Truth. |