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saved my skin whole. Shortly afterward, he went to visit his father;
and as he has not turned up since, I trust he is there yet.

^jid I remember Muscatine—still more pleasantly—for its
summer sunsets. I have never seen any, on either side of the ocean,
that equalled them. They used the broad smooth river as a canvas,
and painted on it every imaginable dream of colour, from the mottled
daintinesses and delicacies of the opal, all the way up, through cumu-
lative intensities, to blinding purple and crimson conflagrations which

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were enchanting to the eye, but sharply tried it at the same time.
All the Upper Mississippi region has these eadxaordiaary suneete m
a familiar spectacle* It is the true Sunset Land: I am sore **o
other country can show so good a right to the name. The sunrises
are also said to be exceedingly fine. I do not know.