id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 8472 Twain, Mark Life on the Mississippi, Part 2. .txt text/plain 12304 779 90 engine bells, and in due time the boat's nose came to the land, a torch It made my heart ache to think I had only got half of the river plain that I had got to learn this troublesome river BOTH WAYS. What is called the 'upper river' (the two hundred miles between St. Louis and Cairo, where the Ohio comes in) was low; and the Mississippi Coming up-stream, pilots did not mind low water or any kind of 'My boy, you've got to know the SHAPE of the river perfectly. change the shape of the river in different ways. river in the night the same as he'd know his own front hall?' I went to work now to learn the shape of the river; and of all the It was plain that I had got to learn the shape of the river in all the river--shapes and all--and so I can run it at night?' ./cache/8472.txt ./txt/8472.txt