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wat
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me
ins;
bur
ife;
and
ces.
but
ays
uld
ea
old
uld
of
nd,
Boy
The
or's
mud
3-I served under many pilots,
and had experience of many
kinds of steamboat men and
many varieties of
steamboats...I am to this day
profiting somewhat by that
experience; for in that brief,
sharp schooling, I got
personally and familiarly
acquainted with about all the
different types of human
nature that are to be found in
fiction, biography, or history...
The figure that comes before
me oftenest, out of the
shadows of that vanished
time, is that of Brown, of the
steamer Pennsylvania-
A. Flashback
me
nief
ge,