The Last of the Flatboats
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Eggleston George Cary. The Last of the Flatboats
Preface
CHAPTER I. THE RESCUE OF THE PIGS
CHAPTER II. HOW IT ALL BEGAN
CHAPTER III. CAPTAIN PHIL
CHAPTER IV. A HURRY CALL
CHAPTER V. ON THE BANKS OF THE WONDERFUL RIVER
CHAPTER VI. THE PILOT
CHAPTER VII. TALKING
CHAPTER VIII. THE RIGHT TO THE RIVER
CHAPTER IX. WHAT HAPPENED AT LOUISVILLE
CHAPTER X. JIM
CHAPTER XI. THE WONDERFUL RIVER
CHAPTER XII. THE WONDERFUL RIVER’S WORK
CHAPTER XIII. THE TERROR OF THE RIVER
CHAPTER XIV. IN THE HOME OF THE EARTHQUAKES
CHAPTER XV. IN THE CHUTE
CHAPTER XVI “TALKING BUSINESS”
CHAPTER XVII. AT ANCHOR
CHAPTER XVIII. AT BREAKFAST
CHAPTER XIX. SCUTTLE CHATTER
CHAPTER XX. AT MEMPHIS
CHAPTER XXI. A WRESTLE WITH THE RIVER
CHAPTER XXII. IN THE FOG
CHAPTER XXIII. THROUGH THE CREVASSE
CHAPTER XXIV. A LITTLE AMATEUR SURGERY
CHAPTER XXV. A VOYAGE IN THE WOODS
CHAPTER XXVI. THE CREW AND THEIR CAPTAIN
CHAPTER XXVII. A STRUGGLE IN THE DARK
CHAPTER XXVIII. A HARD-WON VICTORY
CHAPTER XXIX. RESCUE
CHAPTER XXX. A YAZOO AFTERNOON
CHAPTER XXXI. AN OFFER OF HELP
CHAPTER XXXII. PUBLICITY
CHAPTER XXXIII. DOWN “THE COAST”
CHAPTER XXXIV. A TALK ON DECK
CHAPTER XXXV. LOOKING FORWARD
CHAPTER XXXVI. THE LAST LANDING
CHAPTER XXXVII. RED-LETTER DAYS IN NEW ORLEANS
CHAPTER XXXVIII “IT”
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“Give it up, boys; you’re tired, and you’ve been in the water too long already. And, besides, I’ve decided that this job’s done.”
It was Ed Lowry who spoke. He was lying on the sand under a big sycamore tree that had slid, roots and all, off the river bank above, and now stood leaning like a drunken man trying to stand upright.
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“I say, boys,” said Ed, “this is a big find. It’s that ferry-boat shaft the iron man told us about, and you remember we are to have fifty dollars for it.”
“Then hurrah for Phil Lowry’s obstinate pertinacity!” said Irving Strong. “That’s what Mrs. Dupont called it when she bracketed his name and mine together on the bulletin-board as ‘Irreclaimable whisperers.’ Phil, you may be irreclaimable, but you’ve proved that this shaft isn’t.”
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