"Rafting" Quotes from Famous Books
... favor by its victim, and it would be but natural to suppose that man would take every precaution against the accidental occurrence of such an undesired condition. The writer well remembers that, in his "Tom Sawyer" days on the banks of the upper Mississippi, in the happy days of the crack rafting crews, before the introduction of the towage steamer, when the river towns were more or less terrorized by wild gangs of these men, some of whom were always fighting and quarreling and drinking when not at work. In the lot there was one man with a great ... — History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino |