ZIFJS ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

envy of the country boys on the bank. If they did not seem to dis-
cover me, I presently sneezed to attract their attention, or moved to
a position where they could not help seeing me. And as soon as I
knew they saw me I gaped and stretched, and gave other signs of
being mightily bored with travelling.
I kept my hat

stayed where the
could strike me,
get the bronzed
look of an old
second day was

off all the time, and
wind and the sun
because I wanted to
and weather-beaten
traveller. Before the
half gone I experi-
enced a joy which
filled me with the
purest gratitude; for
I saw that the skin
had begun to blister
and peel off my face
and neck. I wished
that the boys and
girls at home could
see me now.

"We reached Louis-
ville in time—at least
the neighbourhood of
it. We stuck hard
and fast on the rocks
in the middle of the
river, and lay there
four days. I was
now beginning to
feel a strong sense of
being a part of the

boat's family, a sort of infant son to the captain and younger brother
to the officers. There is no estimating the pride I took in this
grandeur, or the affection that began to swell and grow in me for
those people. I could not know how the lordly steamboatman scorns
that sort of presumption in a mere landsman. I particularly

'BOEED WITH TRAVELLING-.'