{"product_id":"2940012526267","title":"OLD TIMES ON THE MISSISSIPPI and A LITERARY NIGHTMARE","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original edition for your reading pleasure. (Worth every penny!)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBelow are are few excerpts from the book and as Shakespeare said: \"What's in a name?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jim, how did you run Plum Point, coming up?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It was in the night, there, and I ran it the way one of the boys on the Diana told me; started out about fifty yards above the wood pile on the false point, and held on the cabin under Plum Point till I raised the reef quarter less twain— then straightened up for the middle bar till I got well abreast the old one-limbed cotton-wood in the bend, then got my stern on the cotton-wood and head on the low place above the point, and came through a-booming — nine and a half.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pretty square crossing, an't it?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yes, but the upper bar's working down fast.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnother pilot spoke up and said:— \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I had better water than that, and ran it lower down; started out from the false point— mark twain— raised the second reef abreast the big snag in the bend, and had quarter less twain.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**********\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Labboard lead, there! Stabboard lead!\"\u003cbr\u003eThe cries of the leadsmen began to rise out of the distance, and were gruffly repeated by the word-passers on the hurricane deck.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"M-a-r-k three! M-a-r-k three! Quarter-less-three! Half twain! Quarter twain! M-a-r-k twain! Quarter-less\"— \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**********\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat night we had the watch until twelve. Now it was an ancient river custom for the two pilots to chat a bit when the watch changed. While the relieving pilot put on his gloves and lit his cigar, his partner, the retiring pilot, would say something like this:— \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I judge the upper bar is making down a little at Hale's Point; had quarter twain with the lower lead and mark twain with the other.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**********\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was another shock. I began to climb the wheel like a squirrel; but I would hardly get the boat started to port before I would see new dangers on that side, and away I would spin to the other; only to find perils accumulating to starboard, and be crazy to get to port again. Then came the leadsman's sepulchral cry:— \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"D-e-e-p four!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeep four in a bottomless crossing! The terror of it took my breath away.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"M-a-r-k three! M-a-r-k three! Quarter less three! Half twain!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was frightful! I seized the bell-ropes and stopped the engines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Quarter twain! Quarter twain! Mark twain!\"","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069360324848,"sku":"2940012526267","price":1.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012526267_p0.jpg?v=1763570099","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012526267","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}