If they did not seem to discover me, I presently sneezed to attract their attention, or moved to a position where they could not help seeing me.
And as soon as I knew they saw me I gaped and stretched, and gave other signs of being mightily bored with traveling.
I kept my hat off all the time, and stayed where the wind and the sun could strike me, because I wanted to get the bronzed and weather-beaten look of an old traveler.

Before the second day was half gone I experienced a joy which filled me with the purest gratitude; for I saw that the skin had begun to blister and peel off my face and neck.

I wished that the boys and girls at home could see me now.
We reached Louisville in time--at least the neighborhood of it.

We stuck hard and fast on the rocks in the middle of the river, and lay there four days.

I was now beginning to feel a strong sense of being a part of the boat's family, a sort of infant son to the captain and younger brother to the officers.