Mark Twain's Illustrations


from Life on the Mississippi
published in 1874
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Frontispiece.


The "Baton Rouge."

Title page.


Mississippi Steamboat of Fifty Years Ago.

The "Body of the Nation."


Table of Contents.


Index of Illustrations.


Chapter 1 - The River and Its History.


View on the River.
A High-Water Sketch.
La Salle Canoeing.
De Soto Sees It.
"Classifying Their Offspring."
Burial of De Soto.
Canadian Indians.

Chapter 2 - The River and Its Explorers.


Crossing the Lakes.
Anchored in the Stream.
"Hospitably Received."
La Salle on the Ice.
Consecrating the Robbery.
The Temple Wall.

Chapter 3 - Frescoes from the Past.


Early Navigation.
A Lumber Raft.
"I Swum Along the Raft."
"He Jumped Up in the Air."
"Went Around in a Circle."
"He Knocked Them Sprawling."
An Old-Fashioned Break-Down.
The Mysterious Barrel.
"Soon There Was a Regular Storm."
"The Lightning Killed Two Men."
"Grabbed the Little Child."
"Ed Got Up Mad."
"Who Are You?"
"Charles William Albright, Sir."

Chapter 4 - The Boys' Ambition


"Our Permanent Ambition."
"Water-Street Clerks."
"All Go Hurrying to the Wharf."
"The Town Drunkard Asleep Once More."
"A Shining Hero."

Chapter 5 - I Want to Be a Cub-Pilot.


"Bored with Traveling."
"Tell me Where It Is -- I'll Fetch it!"
Sublime in Profanity.
"His Tears Dripped upon the Lantern."

Chapter 6 - A Cub-Pilot's Experience.


"He Easily Borrowed Six Dollars."
"Besieging the Pilot."
"This is Nine-Mile Point."
"Come! Turn Out!"
"A Minute Later."
"You"re a Smart One."
"Get a Memorandum Book."
" Sumptuous Temple."

Chapter 7 - A Daring Deed.


"River Inspectors."
"A Tangled Knot."
"Insensibly They Drew Together."
"Stand by, Now!"
"Over She Goes."

Chapter 8 - Perplexing Lessons.


"Loading and Firing."
"Changing Watch."
"All Well--But Me."
"Learning the River."

Chapter 9 - Continued Perplexities.


"That's a Reef."
"Set Her Back."
Mr. B. Stepped into View.
"I Stood Like One Bewitched."

Chapter 10 - Completing My Education.


"Wearing a Toothpick."
"Do You See That Stump?"
The Orator of the Scow.
"Drifting Logs."
"Gambling Down Below."

Chapter 11 - The River Rises.


"Tract Distributing."
"Yellow-Faced Miserables."
On a Shoreless Sea.
"The Phantom Assumed the Wheel."
"Nobody There."

Chapter 12 - Sounding.


"Sounding."
"Oh, How Awful."
"Hauled Aboard."

Chapter 13 - A Pilot's Needs.


"A City Street."
"Let a Leadsman Cry, "Half Twain.' "
"Oh, I Knew Him."
"So Full of Laugh."
"Scared to Death."
"Where is Mr. Bixby?"
"If You Love Me, Back Her."

Chapter 14 - Rank and Dignity of Piloting.


"Very Brief Authority."
"Treated with Marked Deference."
"You Take My Boat!"
"No Foolin!"
"Went to Whistling."

Chapter 15 - The Pilots' Monopoly.


"Burst into a Fury."
"Resurrected Pilots."
"The Captain Stormed."
"The Sign of Membership."
"Posting in Report."
"Added to the Fold."
A Justifiable Advance.

Chapter 16 - Racing Days.


Steamboat Time.
Drowsy Engineers.
Brass Bands Bray.
The Parting Chorus.
The Run of The Robert E. Lee.

Chapter 17 - Cut-Offs and Stephen.


Dangerous Ditching.
A Scientist.
Deluged and Careened.
The Spectre Steamer.
"My, What a Race I've Had!"
"Beaming Benignantly."

Chapter 18 - I Take a Few Extra Lessons.


Pilot Brown.
"Are You Horace Bigsby's Cub?"
"Hold Up Your Foot."
"Take That Ice Pitcher."
"Full Her Down!"
"I Killed Brown Every Night."
"Hurled Me Across the House."

Chapter 19 - Brown and I Exchange Compliments.


"I Hit Brown a Good Honest Blow."
"The Racket Had Brought Everybody to the Deck."
"So You Have Been Fighting."
"An Emancipated Slave."

Chapter 20 - A Catastrophe.


"Henry and I Sat Chatting."
Emptying the Wood-Flat.
The Explosion.
A Startled Barber.
Ealer Saves His Flute.
The Fire Drove the Axemen Away.
The Hospital Ward.

Chapter 21 - A Section in My Biography.


Chapter 22 - I Return to My Muttons.


The Land of Full "Goatees."
Station Loafers.
Under an Alias.
"Do You Drink This Slush?"
Sound-Asleep Steamboats.
Dead Past Resurrection.
The Wood-Yard Man.

Chapter 23 - Traveling Incognito.


Waiting for a Trip.
The Electric Light.
A Landing.
A Close Inspection.

Chapter 24 - My Incognito is Exploded.


Showing the Bells.
"An Alligator Boat."
Alligator Pilots.
The Sacred Bird.
Counting the Vote.
"Here, You Take Her."

Chapter 25 - From Cairo to Hickman.


Grand Tower.
A Dairy Farm.
"Threw the Preacher Overboard."
"Illinois Ground."

Chapter 26 - Under Fire.


His Maiden Battle.
Mighty Warm Times.
"Where Did You See That Fight?"
Darnell vs. Watson.
They Kept on Shooting.
Island Number Ten.
Flood on the River.

Chapter 27 - Some Imported Articles.


"A Dismal Witness."

Chapter 28 - Uncle Mumford Unloads.


The Steamer "Mark Twain."
A Government Lamp.
"Snags."
Running in a Fog.
Uncle Mumford.
Talking over the Situation.
The Tow.

Chapter 29 - A Few Specimen Bricks.


A Soul-Moving Villain.
Selling the Negro.
Concealed in the Brake.
A Man Came in Sight.
I Shot Him Through the Head.
Another Victim.
"Pleasantly Situated."
Memphis: A Landing Stage.
Natives at Dinner.

Chapter 30 -Sketches by the Way.


A Light Keeper.
Negro Travelers.
"Any Boat Gone Up?"
A World of Misinformation.
A Fatal Blow.
Elaborate Style.

Chapter 31 - A Thumb-Print and What Came of It.


Napoleon in 1871.
The Man's Eyes Opened Slowly.
They Rummaged the Cabin.
On the Right Track.
Thumb-Prints.
He Dropped on His Knees.
The Tragedy.
In the Morgue.
I Sat Down by Him.

Chapter 32 - The Disposal of a Bonanza.


We Began to Cool Off.
"Ain't That So, Thompson?"
"He Is Happy Where He Is."
Warmed Up into a Quarrel.
Napoleon as It Is.

Chapter 33 - Refreshments and Ethics.


Caving Banks.
The Commission Dealer.
The Israelite.
The Barkeeper.
A Plain Gill.

Chapter 34 - Tough Yarns.


Mosquitoes.
A Bad Ear.

Chapter 35 - Vicksburg during the Trouble.


Vicksburg.
The River Was Undistributed.
The Cave Dwellers.
Bringing the Children.
Wait and Make Certain.
"Mule Meat?"
Native Wild-Woods.

Chapter 36 - The Professor's Yarn.


My Promenade.
A Short Stout Bag.
The Door Was A-Crack.
"Five Hundred Better."
"Been Laying for You Duffers."

Chapter 37 - The End of the "Gold Dust."


Chapter 38 -The House Beautiful.


An Interior.
Cleansing Themselves.

Chapter 39 -Manufacturers and Miscreants.


Natchez.
Drummers.
"Smell Them, Taste Them."

Chapter 40 - Castles and Culture.


Columbia Female Institute.
The Graceful Palmetto.

Chapter 41 - The Metropolis of the South.


High Water.
The Wharves.
Canal Street.
West End.

Chapter 42 - Hygiene and Sentiment.


The Cemetery.
Immortelles.
Chameleons.
Relics.

Chapter 43 - The Art of Inhumation.


He Chuckled.
"Why, Just Look at It."
Ambition.
An Explanation.

Chapter 44 - City Sights.


The St. Charles Hotel.
The Shell Road.
Spanish Fort.
The Broom Brigade.
"Whah You Was?"
"For Lagniappe."

Chapter 45 - Southern Sports.


"Waw Talk."
Cock Pit.
Guests.
Absence of Harmony.
Collision.

Chapter 46 - Enchantments and Enchanters.


Mardi-Gras.
Chivalry.

Chapter 47 - Uncle Remus and Mr. Cable.


Uncle Remus.
We Read Aloud.

Chapter 48 - Sugar Postage.


The Captain.
Pilot Town.
Smoke and Gossip.
The Interview.

Chapter 49 - Episodes in Pilot Life.


Over the Breastboard.
Thornburgh's Cub.
"He Clung to a Cotton Bale."

Chapter 50 - The "Original Jacobs."


"A Chill Fell There."
"Sellers's Monument.

Chapter 51 - Reminiscences.


I Am Anxious About the Time.
Stage-Struck.
"Look Here, Have You Got That Drink Yet?"

Chapter 52 - A Burning Brand.


Williams Plies His Trade.
He Pulled Some "Leather."
The Crisis.
Mission Work.
Williams.

Chapter 53 - My Boyhood Home.


The Days of Long Ago.
A Practical Joke.

Chapter 54 - Past and Present.


"I Sat Up in Red Quaking."
"All Right, Dutchy--Go Ahead."
"We All Flew Home."
Random Rubbish.

Chapter 55 - A Vendetta and Other Things.


The Consecrated Knife.
A Cheap and Pitiful Ruin.
A Bad Case of Shakes.

Chapter 56 - A Question of Law

.
I Tamper with My Conscience.
My Burden is Lifted.

Chapter 57 - An Archangel.


Henry Clay Dean.
"The House Began to Break into Applause."
A Former Resident.

Chapter 58 - On the Upper River.


An Independent Race.
The Man with a Trade Mark.
Majestic Bluffs.
" 'Nuth'n" Says Smith.

Chapter 59 - Legends and Scenery.


Queen's Bluff.
Chimney Rock.
The Maiden's Rock.
The Lecturer.

Chapter 60 - Speculations and Conclusions.


St. Paul.
An Early Postmaster.
The First Arrival.
Minneapolis and the Falls of St. Anthony.
The Mixture.



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