It is about the adventures of Mark Twain as a trainee captain of a steamboat. Throughout the story, the river is depicted as a character.
The boys saw one or two clerks sitting in front of the Water Street Stores with splint bottomed chairs tilting backward.
They were sleeping with the hats covering their faces. Some men were drunk and were fast asleep. The men wore silver and brass watch. The Minister's son became an engineer, the liquor dealer's son became the bar-owner and the pilot was the grandest position of all.
