TWO WAY OF SEEING A RIVER

“Two Way of Seeing a River” by Mark Twain

“Two Way of Seeing a River” by Mark Twain

Now, when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know all the insignificant features that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, which had made a valuable acquisition. All the grace, beauty, poetry had left the majestic river! I still keep in mind a certain wonderful sunset which I witnessed when steam boating was new to me. A wide expanse of the river turned to blood, ...