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Complete these sentences from Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi with words that are punctuated and spelled correctly.
There was nothing generous about this fellow in his greatness. He would always manage to have a rusty bolt to scrub while his boat
tarried at our town, and he would sit on the inside guard and
8 where we could all see him and envy him and loathe him. And
whenever his boat was laid up he would come home and swell around the town in his blackest and greasiest clothes so that nobody
could help remembering that he was a steamboatman; and he used all sorts of steamboat technicalities in his talk, as if he were so used
to them that he forgot common people could not understand them. He would speak of the 'labboard side of a horse in an easy, natural
way that would make one wish he was B And he was always talking about 'St. Looy' like an old citizen; he would refer casually to
occasions when he was coming down Fourth Street,' or when he was 'passing by the Planter's House,' or when there was a fire and he
took a turn on the brakes of "the old Big
"and then he would go on and lie about how many towns the size of ours were
burned down there that day.
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