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Identifier: stnicholasserial4311dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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as any one who had not tried it and had not alsomade the long trip to New Orleans. Nevertheless, as the drowsy little steamer wentpuffing down into softer, sunnier lands, the old
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CAPTAIN BIXBY IN 1907 rHE ST. LOUIS LEVEE IN 1855. Copyriiihl by Harper Brotliers. 218 THE BOYS LIFE OF MARK TWAIN (Jan., dream, the permanent ambition of l^oyhood, re-turned, while the call of the far-off upper Ama-zon and cocoa grew faint. Horace Bixby,i pilot of the Paul Jones, a manof thirty-two, was looking out over the bow atthe head of Island No. 35 when he heard a slow,pleasant voice say: Good morning. Bixby was a small, clean-cut man. Good morning, sir, he said rather briskly,without looking around. He did not much care for visitors in the pilot-house. This one entered and stood a little be-hind him. How would you like a young man to learnthe river ? came to him in that serene, deliberatespeech. The pilot glanced over his shoulder and sawa rather slender, loose-limbed youth with a fair,girlish complexion, and a great mass of curlyauburn hair. T would nt like it. Cub pilots are more trou-ble than they re worth. A great deal more trou-ble than profit. I am a printer by trade, t

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