The first step of the red-faced
attorney, on finding no state-room unoccupied, was to dispossess two
flat-boatmen of theirs, by the payment of a round bonus. Jaspar thought
this a rather extravagant move for one apparently so parsimonious; but
his mind was too deeply engrossed with the difficulties which environed
him to comment on extraneous subjects.
To this state-room Jaspar and his confidant retired, to consider the
condition of their operations; and while they deliberate we will return
to another character.
Uncle Nathan was in the full enjoyment of all the satisfaction which
seeing the world affords to the observing man. He gazed with unceasing
wonder upon the Father of Waters, on whose mighty bosom he was borne
towards the loved scenes of home. He was edified and amused with the
ever-varying succession of objects which presented themselves, as the
Chalmetta progressed. Flat-boats and steamers, plantations and
cotton-wood groves, islands and cut-offs, were all objects of interest.
And, when he was tired of these, "Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress," which
was his constant travelling companion, afforded him all the excitement
his contented disposition required.
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