Then The Bridal Chamber - The Animal That Invented That Idea Was Still Alive And Unhanged, At That Day - Bridal Chamber Whose Pretentious Flummery Was Necessarily Overawing To The Now Tottering Intellect Of That Hosannahing Citizen.

Every state-room had its couple of cozy clean bunks, and perhaps a looking-glass and a snug closet;

And sometimes there was even a washbowl and pitcher, and part of a towel which could be told from mosquito netting by an expert - though generally these things were absent, and the shirt-sleeved passengers cleansed themselves at a long row of stationary bowls in the barber shop, where were also public towels, public combs, and public soap.

Take the steamboat which I have just described, and you have her in her highest and finest, and most pleasing, and comfortable, and satisfactory estate. Now cake her over with a layer of ancient and obdurate dirt, and you have the Cincinnati steamer awhile ago referred to. Not all over - only inside; for she was ably officered in all departments except the steward's.

But wash that boat and repaint her, and she would be about the counterpart of the most complimented boat of the old flush times: for the steamboat architecture of the West has undergone no change; neither has steamboat furniture and ornamentation undergone any.

Chapter 39 Manufactures and Miscreants

WHERE the river, in the Vicksburg region, used to be corkscrewed, it is now comparatively straight - made so by cut-off; a former distance of seventy miles is reduced to thirty-five.

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