Explore "Life on the Mississippi, Part 3" by Mark Twain on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
ONE day, on board the 'Aleck Scott,' my chief, Mr. Bixby, was crawling carefully through a close place at Cat Island, both leads going, and everybody holding his breath. The captain, a nervous, apprehensive man, kept still as long as he could, but finally broke down and shouted from the hurricane deck --
'For gracious' sake, give her steam, Mr. Bixby! give her steam! She'll never raise the reef on this headway!'