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Life On The Mississippi

CHAPTER 30 Sketches by the Way
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Not for any particular place; no, nearly any place will answer; they only want to be moving.

The amount of money on hand will answer the rest of the conundrum for them.

If it will take them fifty miles, very well; let it be fifty.

If not, a shorter flight will do.
During a couple of days, we frequently answered these hails.

Sometimes there was a group of high-water-stained, tumble-down cabins, populous with colored folk, and no whites visible; with grassless patches of dry ground here and there; a few felled trees, with skeleton cattle, mules, and horses, eating the leaves and gnawing the bark--no other food for them in the flood-wasted land.


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