This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...husband working barefoot and bareheaded on deck, to the Kentucky eye as much a river rat as the worst of them. Under the magic influence of Kentucky the tramp sank back into oblivion; we landed for the mere pleasure of it several times, and roamed about under the yellow sycamores and along country roads to drink it in. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...husband working barefoot and bareheaded on deck, to the Kentucky eye as much a river rat as the worst of them. Under the magic influence of Kentucky the tramp sank back into oblivion; we landed for the mere pleasure of it several times, and roamed about under the yellow sycamores and along country roads to drink it in. Migrating tanagers made the day memorable. It was a delightful day; and many more followed it, while we drifted past Columbus and Hickman, past an eddy at the Chalk Cliffs against which we had been warned; past sycamore woods and the mouths of bayous, and at last running late one stilly, wonderful evening--while ducks and geese quacked noisily from the bars, and owls hooted from the wildernesses back of them--down the long reach past Donaldson's 'Point and the towhead that marks the site of Island Number Ten, and under the frowning bluffs from which the Fighting Bishop made his brave stand against the Union fleet. At every turn adventure awaited us. We moored that night at La Farge's landing and in the morning, wind driven, blew ashore near the mouth of the bayou St. John, in the shelter of the chute behind Morrison's island. A sign on the bank forbade our tying up, but we had no option. As I drove my stakes a young man came hastily down the bank and hailed us. He proved to be a pleasant chap and I invited him in. When we had visited for an hour or so he told us that this was his land, that he had prepared the signs. "But I don't want you-all to pay no attention to them at all," he said, heartily. "Fact is, I like you-all. I want youall to come up to the house and visit us for a week or so." We did not do that, but we had many merry days visiting back and forth between the Easy Way and the old plantation house back of Morr...
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Very Good+ No Jacket. 8vo-over 7æ"-9æ" tall. Blue cloth stamped with gold on spine aan front board. Illustrated with photographs. A chronile of housboating, during the first decade of the twentieth century, on the Mississippi and Illinois' rivers. Private inscription on endpaper. Very good+.
