CHAPTER IX.
_Scenes Ashore and Afloat_.
FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST.

LOUIS.
Fabrication of the Republican Bonbon Wood Machinery A Nine-inside Coach Human Polecat Breakfast and Cigar _versus_ Foetor Ferry Crossing--Travelling Beasts Old Bell's and Old Bell Cross Country Drive--Scenery The Mammoth Cave Old Bell and the Mail Pleasant Companions Rural Lavatory Fat Boy and Circus Intelligence LOUISVILLE and Advice Ohio--A Bet at the Bar A Dinner Scene and a Lady Dessert and Toothpicks Evening Recreation CAIRO--Its Prospects ST.

LOUIS--Its Prosperity.