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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Hi-i-i!" a listener cried out, gleefully, "hyar comes the Riveh Prophet after yo sinners. Hi-i-i!" There was a laugh through the crowd. Others strolled out to see the phenomenon. A man who had been playing with fortune at one of the poker tables swore aloud. "I cayn't neveh git started, I don't shift down on my luck!" he whined.
"Seventy widows kneeling " A long hail came over the water and a torch was raised and lowered. "Hi-i " hallooed the voice. "Hi-i-i " hallooed back Clancy as he pulled down his wheel. You might have thought he intended to run over them.
Up among the larches a faint chopping sound could just be heard, irregular but persistent. The man put a hand to his mouth, and hailed "Hi-i-i! Knock off! Stable clock's gone noo-oon!" Came back no answer.
I struck it just alongside the gov'ment shanty. The engineers had knocked off work for the week, waitin' for supplies, but they hadn't took away their dunnage. "'Hi! I yells, as I hauled up the dory. 'Hi-i-i! Billings, where be you? "The honkin' stopped and back comes the answer; there was joy in it. "'What? Is that Cap'n Stitt? "'Yes, I sings out. 'Where be you?
"Hi," exclaimed that dingy individual, making a torrent of remarks in Portuguese, while he darted his long pole hither and thither; then, observing that Martin and Barney were gazing at him open mouthed, he shouted, "Look out, boys! here Jim comes! Take care, ole feller, or he jump right down you' throat! hi-i-i!"
"Hi-i-i! Yo' all found the man yo' come a-lookin' fo'. Ho law!" "Hit's the Riveh Prophet," someone replied to a hail from within, the dance ending. A crowd came tumbling out onto the deck of the big boat of the dance hall, everyone talking, laughing, catching their breaths. "Hi-i! Likely he'll preach to-morrow," a woman cried. "To-morrow's Sunday." "Sunday?" Rasba gasped.
"Hi," exclaimed that dingy individual, making a torrent of remarks in Portuguese, while he darted his long pole hither and thither; then, observing that Martin and Barney were gazing at him open mouthed, he shouted, "Look out, boys! here 'im comes! Take care, ole feller, or he jump right down you throat! hi-i-i!"
"I can say that I only wish I could be as good a pilot for poor souls and sinners toward heaven as Jest is a river pilot for a wandering old mountain parson on the Mississippi " "Hi-i-i!" a score of voices laughed, and someone shouted, "So row me down the Jordan!" They all knew the old religious song which fitted so nicely into the conditions on the Mississippi.
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