Mark is tired of the Nevada Territory and decides to go to California. His last look at Mt Davidson reminds him of the day that the Union forces defeat the Confederate forces at Gettysburg. The flag on the top of Mt Davidson seems to signal this event but no one knows because of a journalistic monopoly that dictates all news of the East must first be printed in California papers.
Life on the Mississippi is the ninth book in The Oxford Mark Twain collection but the content brackets his early childhood aspirations with his eventual success as a writer, "...a scribbler of books". This particular "book", a drupal method for organizing content, contains those chapters dealing with Mark's training to be a pilot. The readings are all done by my Second Life avatar SLClemens in sessions conducted at the sim Fate Gardens in May and June of 2011.
Originally recorded in Fate Gardens on June 21, I was unhappy withe the quality of the recording. So I had it re-read. Last night, July 5, another reading session at Fate Gardens was interrupted by griefers so SLClemens retired to the studio to re-read this chapter. YouTube has advised me that I an now eligible to post videos longer than 15 minutes. This is my first attempt to do so.
A transition chapter between Mark's riverboat career and his return to the river more than twenty years later.
Mark decks Mr. Brown with a stool, in defense of his brother Henry.
