It did not seem worth while to make trouble about a little thing like that; so I swung round to his view of the matter and saved my skin whole.

Shortly afterward, he went to visit his father; and as he has not turned up since, I trust he is there yet.
And I remember Muscatine--still more pleasantly--for its summer sunsets.
I have never seen any, on either side of the ocean, that equaled them.
They used the broad smooth river as a canvas, and painted on it every imaginable dream of color, from the mottled daintinesses and delicacies of the opal, all the way up, through cumulative intensities, to blinding purple and crimson conflagrations which were enchanting to the eye, but sharply tried it at the same time.

All the Upper Mississippi region has these extraordinary sunsets as a familiar spectacle.

It is the true Sunset Land: I am sure no other country can show so good a right to the name.

The sunrises are also said to be exceedingly fine.