This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV I knowed quite a lot about St. Louis, or thought I did. Abner Hastings had been there more'n once, and he'd told me a good deal. But not half-- not even a quarter. I was glad I knowed what I did. It accounted for a heap of things I saw that day. I remembered Abner Hastings had told me that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV I knowed quite a lot about St. Louis, or thought I did. Abner Hastings had been there more'n once, and he'd told me a good deal. But not half-- not even a quarter. I was glad I knowed what I did. It accounted for a heap of things I saw that day. I remembered Abner Hastings had told me that St. Louis was one of the few cities now under our good flag that was older'n the Union itse'f. "Her career," he'd said, "has been as mottled as her population, which, changing somewhat with her allegiance, has still left a portion of both good and bad of the peoples belonging to the three sovereign nations which have of right possessed her during her fifty-nine years of existence." I remembered every word of that, just like he'd said it; and now I knowed it was true --especially the part about the population. For I never did see such a passel of differences in my life before--not even in a bushel of bad-year potatoes. Most likely people from the three sovereign nations was right there that day. Soon's I got there I begun to meet up with queer-looking folks. Trappers and voyageurs, dressed all in buckskin with fancy head riggin's; bull-whackers in regular old homespun's bad's my own; squaws wearing every bright color I ever did see; half-breeds with rings in their ears and nothin' on their heads but their black bobbed hair; Injins all fine in quill work, and their faces painted fit to scare a varmi't; barefoot niggers clear from New Orleans and naked to the waist; regular dandies from back Boston v way, I reckoned, wearing tall beaver hats and frilled shirts; regular ladies in carriages and dressed to kill--all happy, or appearing to be, from the noise they was making. There was groups of men setting everywhere, and the taverns was full to...
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