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1  This steamboat was exactly like a decked scow.
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2  I don't pretend to say that steamboat floated all the time.
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3  We filled the steamboat with it, and had to pile a lot on the deck.
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4  Three carriers could have brought all that was wanted to set that steamboat afloat.
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5  And I didn't do badly either, since I managed not to sink that steamboat on my first trip.
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6  The glimpse of the steamboat had for some reason filled those savages with unrestrained grief.
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7  She was determined to make no end of fuss to get me appointed skipper of a river steamboat, if such was my fancy.
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8  I became aware that the two were standing on the shore alongside the forepart of the steamboat, just below my head.
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9  It was a great comfort to turn from that chap to my influential friend, the battered, twisted, ruined, tin-pot steamboat.
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10  He stood before the wide opening, glaring, and I yelled at him to come back, while I straightened the sudden twist out of that steamboat.
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11  I went forward, and ordered the chain to be hauled in short, so as to be ready to trip the anchor and move the steamboat at once if necessary.
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12  It was very pretty to see how he baffled himself, for in truth my body was full of chills, and my head had nothing in it but that wretched steamboat business.
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13  He steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk, and would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute.
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14  Trees, trees, millions of trees, massive, immense, running up high; and at their foot, hugging the bank against the stream, crept the little begrimed steamboat, like a sluggish beetle crawling on the floor of a lofty portico.
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15  After work hours he used sometimes to come over from his hut for a talk about his children and his pigeons; at work, when he had to crawl in the mud under the bottom of the steamboat, he would tie up that beard of his in a kind of white serviette he brought for the purpose.
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