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CHAPTER XVI.
RACING DAYS.
All Aboard—A Glorious Start—Loaded to Win—Bands and Bugle
Boats and Boats—Racers and Racing . . • 161
CHAPTER XVIL
CUT-OFFS AND STEPHEN.
Cut-offis—Ditching and Shooting—Mississippi Changes—A Wild Night
—Swearing and Guessing—Stephen in Debt—He Confuses his
Creditors—He makes a New Deal—Will Pay them Alphabetically . 173
CHAPTER XVIII.
I TAKE A FEW EXTRA LESSONS.
Sharp Schooling—Shadows—I am Inspected—Where did you get them
Shoes ?—Pull her Down—I want to kill Brown—I try to run her—I
am Complimented ........184
CHAPTER XIX.
BBOWN AND I EXCHANGE COMPLIMENTS.
A Question of Veracity—A Little Unpleasantness—1 have an Audience
with the Captain—Mr. Brown Retires......193
CHAPTER XX,
A CATASTBOPHE.
I become a Passenger—We hear the News—A Thunderous Crash—They
Stand to their Posts—In the Blazing Sun—A Gruesome Spectacle—-
His Hour laas Struck . ........801
CHAPTER XXI.
A SECTION IN MY BIOGRAPHY.
I get my license—The War Begins—I become a Jack-of-all-trade . 21)