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"You should say, `Don't give me any of your airs," Sam said, sweetly, "and the last half of your sentence almost defies correction." A group of passengers and white-aproned servants, assembled on the deck forward, applauded the victor. Sam went down to find Captain Klinefelter. He expected to be put in irons, for it was thought to be mutiny to strike a pilot.
Wood, and my brother, clerks, were asleep, as were also Brown and the head engineer, the carpenter, the chief mate, and one striker; Captain Klinefelter was in the barber's chair, and the barber was preparing to shave him. There were a good many cabin passengers aboard, and three or four hundred deck passengers so it was said at the time and not very many of them were astir.
Brown gave no intimation that he had heard anything. But that was his way: he never condescended to take notice of an under clerk. If I had two heads, I would have spoken; but as I had only one, it seemed judicious to take care of it; so I kept still. Presently, sure enough, we went sailing by that plantation. Captain Klinefelter appeared on the deck, and said
I had been put ashore in New Orleans by Captain Klinefelter. The reason however, I have told all about it in the book called Old Times on the Mississippi, and it isn't important anyway, it is so long ago. When I was a Sunday-school scholar something more than sixty years ago, I became interested in Satan, and wanted to find out all I could about him.
They were passing the landing when the captain appeared on the deck. "Didn't Henry tell you to land here?" he called to Brown. "No, sir." Captain Klinefelter turned to Sam. "Didn't you hear him?" "Yes, sir!" Brown said: "Shut your mouth! You never heard anything of the kind!" Henry appeared, not suspecting any trouble.
The barber's chair, with Captain Klinefelter in it and unhurt, was left with its back overhanging vacancy everything forward of it, floor and all, had disappeared; and the stupefied barber, who was also unhurt, stood with one toe projecting over space, still stirring his lather unconsciously, and saying, not a word.
The barber's chair, with Captain Klinefelter in it and unhurt, was left with its back overhanging vacancy everything forward of it, floor and all, had disappeared; and the stupefied barber, who was also unhurt, stood with one toe projecting over space, still stirring his lather unconsciously, and saying, not a word.
Wood, and my brother, clerks, were asleep, as were also Brown and the head engineer, the carpenter, the chief mate, and one striker; Captain Klinefelter was in the barber's chair, and the barber was preparing to shave him. There were a good many cabin passengers aboard, and three or four hundred deck passengers so it was said at the time and not very many of them were astir.
Brown gave no intimation that he had heard anything. But that was his way: he never condescended to take notice of an under clerk. If I had two heads, I would have spoken; but as I had only one, it seemed judicious to take care of it; so I kept still. Presently, sure enough, we went sailing by that plantation. Captain Klinefelter appeared on the deck, and said
The captain took Sam into his private room and made some inquiries. Mark Twain, in the "Mississippi" boot remembers them as follows: "Did you strike him first?" Captain Klinefelter asked. "Yes, sir." "What with?" "A stool, sir." "Hard?" "Middling, sir." "Did it knock him down?" "He he fell, sir." "Did you follow it up? Did you do anything further?" "Yes, sir." "What did you do?"
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