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    Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.
    Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.
    Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.
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    Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.

    By Mark Twain

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    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, who was born Samuel L. Clemens in Missouri in 1835, wrote some of the most enduring works of literature in the English language, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc was his last completed book—and, by his own estimate, his best. Its acquisition by Harper & Brothers allowed Twain to stave off bankruptcy. He died in 1910. 

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      Life on the Mississippi, Part 8. - Mark Twain

      LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, Part 8., By Mark Twain

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Life On The Mississippi, Part 8.

      by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

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      Title: Life On The Mississippi, Part 8.

      Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

      Release Date: July 10, 2004 [EBook #8478]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, PART 8. ***

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      LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI, Part 8

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Chapter 36

      The Professor's Yarn

      IT was in the early days. I was not a college professor then. I was a humble-minded young land-surveyor, with the world before me—to survey, in case anybody wanted it done. I had a contract to survey a route for a great mining-ditch in California, and I was on my way thither, by sea—a three or four weeks' voyage. There were a good many passengers, but I had very little to say to them; reading and dreaming were my passions, and I avoided conversation in order to indulge these appetites. There were three professional gamblers on board—rough, repulsive fellows. I never had any talk with them, yet I could not help seeing them with some frequency, for they gambled in an upper-deck stateroom every day and night, and in my promenades I often had glimpses of them through their door, which stood a little ajar to let out the surplus tobacco smoke and profanity. They were an evil and hateful presence, but I had to put up with it, of course,

      There was one other passenger who fell under my eye a good deal, for he seemed determined to be friendly with me, and I could not have gotten rid of him without running some chance of hurting his feelings, and I was far from wishing to do that. Besides, there was something engaging in his countrified simplicity and his beaming good-nature. The first time I saw this Mr. John Backus, I guessed, from his clothes and his looks, that he was a

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