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.

Mark is assigned to work with a rather obnoxious pilot named Brown. It may ultimately been for his own good as it got him off a boat that later exploded.

Mississippi river dynamics, the creation of cut-offs. Followed by a brief anecdote about a pilot named Stephen.

The carnival atmosphere of riverboat racing.