Life on the Mississippi Life on the Mississippi

I should say so. I fancy we shan’t run any of the river this trip as you’ve ever seen it run before–so to speak. If the river begins to rise again, we’ll go up behind bars that you’ve always seen standing out of the river, high and dry like the roof of a house; we’ll cut across low places that you’ve never noticed at all, right through the middle of bars that cover three hundred acres of river.