A sovereign andan autocrat, the pilot's word was law; he wore his responsibilities as acrown. It was most gratifying. Before long, Emerson began to fidget. The shade of the little monument was welcome after our ride across the baking desert.
He is better this morning. Mark Twain tells us in Life on the Mississippi that he ran away, vowingnever to return until he could come home a pilot, shedding glory. Various stories have beentold of this matter, most of them untrue. FROM MANUSCRIPT HFor once, Emerson's consuming passion for excavation yielded to an even greater passion.
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