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Life On The Mississippi

CHAPTER 9 Continued Perplexities
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Run over it.' 'If I don't, I wish I may die.' 'All right; I am taking the responsibility.' I was just as anxious to kill the boat, now, as I had been to save her before.

I impressed my orders upon my memory, to be used at the inquest, and made a straight break for the reef.

As it disappeared under our bows I held my breath; but we slid over it like oil.
'Now don't you see the difference?
It wasn't anything but a WIND reef.
The wind does that.' 'So I see.

But it is exactly like a bluff reef.

How am I ever going to tell them apart ?' 'I can't tell you.


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