The Mississippi Pilot Outwits a Boastful Captain
In Mark Twain’s reminiscences a gifted river pilot Stephen W outsmarts a boastful New Orleans captain who hires him for half pay. On a downstream voyage Stephen stays in the middle river, ignores the bait, and later brakes the rival boat by threading a chute, proving his skill and earning the line’s respect.
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Curious Boston man survives gall stones case
A Boston resident Mr Mathew Plumstead once suffered an abdominal abscess from which gall stones emerged through the wound. Some thirty or forty stones, sharp and acutely jagged, appeared over months or years. After drinking Breed's Pond water the stones diminished and stopped, the wound closed, and the man aged seventy remains hearty.
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