...and the steamer is at rest. Then such a scramble as there is to get aboard, and to get ashore, and to take in freight, and to discharge freight, all...again, and the town drunkard asleep by the skids once more.1 It was the romance of this river, the vastness and the mystery of it, the great unknown world...

...Welt erst in der Begegnung mit der kleinen Welt ihre idyllenspezifische Bestimmung entwickeln kann: "Ten minutes later the steamer is under way again,...jack-staff and no black smoke issuing from the chimneys." Bei der Auflösung der Szene zeigt sich auch implizit Mark Twains Berücksichtigung der Tageszeiten,...

...and the steamer is at rest. Then such a scramble as there is to get aboard, and to get ashore, and to take in freight and to discharge freight, all at...again, and the town drunkard asleep by the skids once more.6 In reaching backward in time for the substance of this passage, Mark Twain made a great step...

...there is to get aboard, and to get ashore, and to take in freight and to discharge freight, all at once and the same time; and such a yelling and cursing...from the chimneys. After ten more minutes the town i« dead again, and the town drunkard asleep by the skids once more. My father was a justice of the...

...and the steamer is at rest. Then such a scramble as there is to get aboard, and to get ashore, and to take in freight and to discharge freight, all at...all with! Ten minutes later the steamer is under way ... By and by one of our boys went away. He was not heard of for a long time. At last he turned up...

...whole narrative: "Then such a scramble as there is to get aboard, and to get ashore, and to take in freight, all at one and the same time; and such a yelling and cursing as the mates facilitate it all withDTen minutes later the steamer is under way again, with no flag on the jack-staff and no black...