Travels at HomeHarper & brothers, 1910 - 142 Seiten |
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ain't bank began bend big bell Bixby bluff reef boat boat's By-and-by captain Carson City coach dead deck dollars face feet flour flour-sack Gold Hill gone Gridley Gulf of Mexico half twain hand head heard horse hour hundred and fifty hundred miles Hyde Indians Island Jack know the shape land leadsmen look Louis MARK TWAIN mate memory minutes Mississippi Mississippi River Missouri Morgan mountain mouth Nevada never night Orleans passengers Paul Jones pilot pilot-house pipe of peace plain PONY EXPRESS pony-rider Posey County presently pretty quarter twain ranch river Roop sack sage-brush Salle San Francisco Sanitary seemed shoal shore side snag snatch Soto steamboat steamboatman stood stretched talk tell there's thing thoroughbrace thousand tion took town trip turned United States Attorney up-stream Virginia VIRGINIA CITY waited watch wheel wonderful
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Seite 26 - Steam-boat a-comin!" and the scene changes! The town drunkard stirs, the clerks wake up, a furious clatter of drays follows, every house and store pours out a human contribution, and all in a twinkling the dead town is alive and moving. Drays, carts, men, boys, all go hurrying from many quarters to a common center, the wharf.
Seite 25 - After all these years I can picture that old time to myself now, just as it was then : the white town drowsing in the sunshine of a summer's morning; the streets empty, or pretty nearly so ; one or two clerks sitting in front of the Water street stores, with their splint-bottomed chairs tilted back against the walls, chins on breasts, hats slouched over their faces, asleep — with shingle-shavings enough around to show what • Hannibal, Mo.
Seite 112 - IN a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the " pony-rider " — the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days ! Think of that for perishable horse and human flesh and blood to do ! The pony- rider was usually a little bit of a man, brimful of spirit and endurance.
Seite 48 - Jones's" pilot-house was a cheap, dingy, battered rattletrap, cramped for room: but here was a sumptuous glass temple; room enough to have a dance in; showy red and gold window-curtains; an imposing sofa; leather cushions and a back to the high bench where visiting pilots sit, to spin yarns and "look at the river;" bright, fanciful "cuspadores...
Seite 28 - passing by the Planter's House," or when there was a fire and he took a turn on the...
Seite 113 - ... beat" was a level straight road or a crazy trail over mountain crags and precipices, or whether it led through peaceful regions or regions that swarmed with hostile Indians, he must be always ready to leap into the saddle and be off like the wind! There was no idling-time for a pony-rider on duty.
Seite 45 - Bixby lifted his voice and the weightier his adjectives grew. When he closed the window he was empty. You could have drawn a seine through his system and not caught curses enough to disturb your mother with. Presently he said to me in the gentlest way— 'My boy, you must get a little memorandum book, and every time I tell you a thing, put it down right away.
Seite 41 - I assented. It was pleasant enough information, but I could not see the bearing of it. I was not conscious that it was a matter of any interest to me. Another time he said, "This is Nine-Mile Point.
Seite 25 - skids" on the slope of the stone-paved wharf, and the fragrant town drunkard asleep in the shadow of them,- two or three wood flats at the head of the wharf, but nobody to listen to the peaceful lapping of the wavelets against them; the great Mississippi, the majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile- wide tide along, shining in the sun; the dense forest away on the other side,- the "point...
Seite 38 - 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 on a promise to return to the boat and pay it back to me the day after we should arrive. But he probably died or forgot, for he never came. It was doubtless the former, since he had said his parents were wealthy, and he only traveled deck passage because it was cooler.* I soon discovered two things.