CONTENTS. *iii
CHAPTER XXII.
I RETURN TO MY MUTTONS.
PAGB
1 try the Alias Business—Region of Goatees—Boots begin to Appear—-
The River Man is Missing—The Young Man is Discouraged—Speci-
men Water—A Fine Quality of Smoke—A Supreme Mistake—We
Inspect the Town—Desolation Way-traffic—A Wood-yard. . .212
CHAPTER XXIIL
TRAVELLING INCOGNITO.
Old French Settlements—We start for Memphis—Young Ladies and
Russia-leather Bagh......... 223
CHAPTER XXIY.
MY INCOGNITO IS EXPLODED.
I receive some Information—Alligator Boats—Alligator Talk—She was
ft Rattler to go—I am Found Out.......228
CHAPTER XXY.
FEOM CAIBO TO HICKMAN.
The Devil's Oven and Table—A Bombshell falls—No Whitewash—
Thirty years on the River—Mississippi Uniforms—Accidents and
Casualties—Two hundred Wrecks—A Loss to Literature—Sunday-
Schools and Brick Masons.........287
CHAPTER XXYL
UNDER FIRE.
War Talk—I Tilt over Backwards—Fifteen Shot-holes—A Plain Story-
Wars and Feuds—Darnell vervus Watson-—A Gang and a Wood pile—
Western Grammar—River Changes—New Madrid—Floods and
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