How do you reckon I can remember such a mess as that ?' 'My boy, you've got to remember it.

You've got to remember the exact spot and the exact marks the boat lay in when we had the shoalest water, in everyone of the five hundred shoal places between St.Louis and New Orleans; and you mustn't get the shoal soundings and marks of one trip mixed up with the shoal soundings and marks of another, either, for they're not often twice alike.

You must keep them separate.' When I came to myself again, I said-- 'When I get so that I can do that, I'll be able to raise the dead, and then I won't have to pilot a steamboat to make a living.

I want to retire from this business.

I want a slush-bucket and a brush; I'm only fit for a roustabout.