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texas-tender this one,' indicating the whistle-lever, 'is to call the
captain '—and so he went on, touching one object after another, and
reeling off his tranquil spool of lies. *

I had never felt so like a passenger before. I thanked him, with
emotion, for each new fact, and wrote it down in my note-book. The

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pilot warmed to his opportunity, and proceeded to load me up in the
good old-fashioned way. At times I was afraid he was going to
rupture his invention ; but it always stood the strain, and he pulled
through all right. He drifted, by easy stages, into reveabnents of the
river's marvellous eccentricities of one sort and another, and backed
tfaem up with some pretty gigantic illttsfcrations. For instance —