" "So am I. I am not near as young as I was when we first meton that little steamboat on Cayuga Lake, when you and Tom and Sam were going to Putnam Hall for the first time.

"Faith, sir, it's a steamboat.

"The new steamboat began her trial trip," answered Fernando.

"Wonder if that thing I saw with a stovepipe in it was a steamboat?"

The large fjords and lakes have ample steamboat facilities, the coast service between Bergen and Trondhjem being especially good.

At that crisis in the conversation, Mrs. Delano summoned Mr. Jacobs, and requested him to ascertain when a steamboat would go to New Orleans.

Following the directions they had received, they hired a carriage at the steamboat-landing, to convey them to a farm-house a few miles distant.

Believing that the captain of the steamboat was innocent (for he witnessed the transaction on which the charge was founded), and believing also that the intruding party, having no jurisdiction over the place where they proposed to make the arrest, would encounter desperate resistance if they persisted in their purpose, he interposed, effectually, to prevent violence and bloodshed.

"The 'New York Mercantile Advertiser,' of May, 1819, contained the following notice: "'The swift steamboat Walk-in-the-Water is intended to make a voyage early in the summer from Buffalo, on Lake Erie, to Michilimackinac, on Lake Huron, for the conveyance of company.

" About 1850 was the height of steamboat-prosperity on the lakes.

A steamboat, forced by the rapid current against the stone landing, had been stove, and lay a wreck on the bottom, with the water rising rapidly around it.

It was ludicrous, however, to see the steamboat on a river scarcely wider than herself, in a little valley, hemmed in completely with lofty mountains.

A small steamboat was put upon Loch Katrine a short time ago, but the boatmen, jealous of this new invasion of their privilege, one night towed her out to the middle of the lake and there sunk her.

But the landlord was reluctant to part with us; we stamped and shouted and rang bells, till the whole house was in an uproar, for the door was double-locked, and the steamboat bell began to sound.

As they were driving homeward across Canal Street, she noted, out beyond the Free Market, a steamboat softly picking its way in to the levee.

The infantry captain, a transient steamboat acquaintance, used often afterward to say that he never saw anything prettier than those four wildly gladdened ladies unveiling in the shade of their parasols.

In the period beginning 1867 many coöperative stores were founded in America by farmers in the Grange movement, who operated also grain elevators, warehouses, and steamboat lines.

They called it the Maumee or Black Swamp, We were advised to go by water, when a steamboat came up the river bound for Detroit we put our wagons and horses on board, and camped on the lower deck ourselves.

The town was small and cheaply built, and had no wharf, so that when the steamboat came we had to go out to it in a small boat.

Getting a ride up the river on a passing steamboat I reached Prairie La Crosse, where the only house was that of a Dutch trader from whom I bought a Winnebago pony, which he had wintered on a little brushy island, and I thought if he could winter on brush and rushes he must be tough enough to take me across the plains.

We got through the town safely and at the river we found a steamboat bound for San Francisco and the fare was two ounces.

McCloud and I now took his skiff, and for two days floated down the Wisconsin River till we reached the Mississippi, boarded the first steamboat we could hail, and let our own little craft adrift.

The big saloon was owned by John Craycroft, formerly a mate on a Mississippi River steamboat, who gained most of his money by marrying a Spanish woman and making her a silent partner.

Next night, the gentlemen hired the 'Maid of the Mist'the little steamboat, you know, that you see in this pictureand we sailed round and round below the Falls all night, dancing all the time.

In the month that followed the acquittal of Marcus Wilkeson, three real murders, a railway collision killing thirty persons, and a steamboat explosion almost as tragical in its results, occurred.