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Life On The Mississippi

CHAPTER 20 A Catastrophe
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It was horrible.

It was bad for the others, of course--this noise and these exhibitions; so the doctors tried to give him morphine to quiet him.

But, in his mind or out of it, he would not take it.

He said his wife had been killed by that treacherous drug, and he would die before he would take it.

He suspected that the doctors were concealing it in his ordinary medicines and in his water--so he ceased from putting either to his lips.


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