Cincinnati to New Orleans. This gave me a chance to get acquainted with one of the pilots, and he taught me how to steer the boat, and thus made the fascination of river life more potent than ever for me. It also gave me a chance to get acquainted with... Travels at Home - Seite 38von Mark Twain - 1910 - 142 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1875 - 782 Seiten
...me. It also gave me a chance to get acquainted with a youth who had taken deck passage — more 's the pity; for he easily borrowed six dollars of me...he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled deck passage because it was cooler, i I soon discovered two things. One was that a vessel... | |
| Mark Twain - 1901 - 506 Seiten
...for me. It also gave me a chance to get acquainted with a youth who had taken deck passage — more's the pity; for he easily borrowed six dollars of me...he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled deck passage because it was cooler.* I soon discovered two things. One was that a vessel would... | |
| Mark Twain - 1903 - 500 Seiten
...for me. It also gave me a chance to get acquainted with a youth who had taken deck passage — more's the pity; for he easily borrowed six dollars of me...he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled deck passage because it was cooler.* I soon discovered two things. One was that a vessel would... | |
| Mark Twain - 1917 - 560 Seiten
...to fledglings like me, until he had come to believe it himself. CHAPTER VI A CUB-PILOT'S EXPERIENCE WHAT with lying on the rocks four days at Louisville,...he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled deck passage because it was cooler. 1 I soon discovered two things. One was that a vessel... | |
| Mark Twain - 1917 - 536 Seiten
...for me. It also gave me a chance to get acquainted with a youth who had taken deck passage — more's the pity ; for he easily borrowed six dollars of me...he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled deck passage because it was cooler.* I soon discovered two things. One was that a vessel would... | |
| Mark Twain - 1917 - 546 Seiten
...for me. It also gave me a chance to get acquainted with a youth who had taken deck passage — more's the pity; for he easily borrowed six dollars of me...he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled deck passage because it was cooler.1 I soon discovered two things. One was that a vessel would... | |
| Mark Twain - 1917 - 550 Seiten
...for me. It also gave me a chance to get acquainted with a youth who had taken deck passage — more's the pity ; for he easily borrowed six dollars of me...he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled deck passage because it was cooler.1 I soon discovered two things. One was that a vessel would... | |
| Charles Swain Thomas - 1919 - 416 Seiten
...for me. It also gave me a chance to get acquainted with a youth who had taken deck passage — more's the pity; for he easily borrowed six dollars of me...But he probably died, or forgot, for he never came. I soon discovered two things. One was that a vessel would not be likely to sail for the mouth of the... | |
| Melvin Everett Haggerty - 1927 - 586 Seiten
...for me. It also gave me a chance to get acquainted with a youth who had taken deck passage — more's the pity ; for he easily borrowed six dollars of me...since he had said his parents were wealthy and he only traveled deck passage because it was cooler. I soon discovered two things. One was that a vessel would... | |
| Mark Twain - 1982 - 1190 Seiten
...also gave me a chance to get acquainted with a youth who had taken deck passage — more 's the pit}'; for he easily borrowed six dollars of me on a promise...and he only travelled deck passage because it was cooler.1 I soon discovered two things. One was that a vessel would not be likely to sail for the mouth... | |
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