LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, Part 3.
BY MARK TWAIN
TABLE OF CONTENTS
[CHAPTER XI.] In thg Tract Business.—Effects of the Rise.—Plantations gone. —A Measureless Sea.—A Somnambulist Pilot.—Supernatural Piloting. —Nobody there.—All Saved. [CHAPTER XII.] Low Water.—Yawl sounding.—Buoys and Lanterns.—Cubs and Soundings.—The Boat Sunk.—Seeking the Wrecked. [CHAPTER XIII.] A Pilot's Memory.—Wages soaring.—A Universal Grasp.—Skill and Nerve.—Testing a "Cub."—"Back her for Life."—A Good Lesson. [CHAPTER XIV.] Pilots and Captains.—High-priced Pilots.—Pilots in Demand. —A Whistler.—A cheap Trade.—Two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar Speed. [CHAPTER XV.] New Pilots undermining the Pilots' Association.—Crutches and Wages. —Putting on Airs.—The Captains Weaken.—The Association Laughs. —The Secret Sign.—An Admirable System.—Rough on Outsiders. —A Tight Monopoly.—No Loophole.—The Railroads and the War. |