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 Looking down stream, the great ridge filled his vision, and he did not know what it was, or where he was, but his curiosity was aroused. He began to want to know about the reaches, bends, crossings—he wanted to know, especially, if that ridge was not a place.

So his gaze turned along the shore, and a mile down, against the bank across the great eddy below the sandbar island there, he discovered shantyboats.

"I'll go ask them," he told himself.

By just that arousing of his curiosity Old Mississip' added another diversion to the countless episodes of river life.