What IS your name ?' 'Aleck Hopkins, sir.

Aleck James Hopkins.' 'Well, Aleck, where did you come from, here ?' 'From a trading scow.

She lays up the bend yonder.

I was born on her.
Pap has traded up and down here all his life; and he told me to swim off here, because when you went by he said he would like to get some of you to speak to a Mr.Jonas Turner, in Cairo, and tell him--' 'Oh, come!' 'Yes, sir; it's as true as the world; Pap he says--' 'Oh, your grandmother!' They all laughed, and I tried again to talk, but they broke in on me and stopped me.
'Now, looky-here,' says Davy; 'you're scared, and so you talk wild.
Honest, now, do you live in a scow, or is it a lie ?' 'Yes, sir, in a trading scow.

She lays up at the head of the bend.