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CHAPTER X.

COMPLETING MY EDUCATIOH.

PAS1

Putting on Airs — Taken down a bit — Learn it as it is — The Biver

Rising ...... ...... 95

CHAPTER XI.

THE RIVEB RISES.

In the Tract Business — Effects of the Rise — Plantations gone — A Mea-
sureless Sea — A Somnambulist Pilot — Supernatural Piloting — Nobody
there— AH Saved ...... ..... 105

CHAPTER XIL

SOUNDING.

Low Water — Yawl Sounding — Buoys and Lanterns — Cubs and Soundings

-—The Boat Sunk— Seeking the Wrecsked ...... 115

CHAPTER
A PILOT'S NEEDS.
A Pilot's Memory — Wages soaring — A Universal Grasp-^Skill and
Nerve — Testing a ' Cub ' — « Back her for Life ' — A Good Lesson 123
CHAPTER XIV.
RANK AND DIGNITY OF PILOTING.
Pilots and Captains— High-priced Pilots— Pilots in Demand—A Whistler
— A cheap Trade — Two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar Speed . , ,136
CHAPTER XT.
THB PILOT'S MONOPOLY.
Sew Pilots undermining the Pilots' Association — Crutches and Wages —
Putting on Airs — The Captains Weaken — The Association Laughs —
The Secret Sign — An Admirable System — Bough on Outsiders — A
Tight Monopoly — No Loophole — The Railroads and the War . * 143