id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 8474 Twain, Mark Life on the Mississippi, Part 4. .txt text/plain 11195 689 86 In the old times, whenever two fast boats started out on a race, with a Those boats will never halt a moment between New Orleans and St. Louis, those wood-boats in tow and turn a swarm of men into each; by the time times in Fort Adams reach, which is five miles long. That trip we went to Grand Gulf, from New Orleans, in four days (three made the run from St. Louis to St. Paul (800 miles) in 2 days and 20 hours. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and fortytwo years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and threequarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets old bend had already begun to fill up, and the boat got to running away vanished time, is that of Brown, of the steamer 'Pennsylvania'--the man The moment I got back to the pilot-house, Brown said-- ./cache/8474.txt ./txt/8474.txt