The sermon is supposed to have been preached at a village on the bank of the Mississippi River, whither the volunteer parson had brought his flatboat for the purpose of trade.
They were obliged to have salt at once, and he was the only great trader who brought it in by the flatboat load and kept it stored.
Thirsty rustics and flatboat men crowded to his kegs and clinked his glasses.
Father Baby was as great a huckster as anyflatboat man of them all.
After much persuasion I had got the consent of my mother to go, and had constructed a flatboat large enough to take the few barrels of things we had gathered to New Orleans.
Then he was hired by a Mr. Denton Offut to take a flatboat loaded with goods from Sangamon town to New Orleans.
The locality is supposed to be a village on the bank of the Mississippi River, whither the volunteer parson had brought his flatboat for the purpose of trade.
I hastened to point out a flatboat which had caught my eye when we first rode down to the bank.
Between them I soon learned that the flatboat was well stocked for the voyage, and that the senor had sent word he was about to go aboard with his party.
Life supported Sandy in his arms, and Artie brought the flatboat up close.
Artie needed no urging to do this, and soon the flatboat grounded on the south bank of the river, and willing hands carried Sandy to a grassy bank where he was rolled and worked over, until the water came out of him, and he gave a gasp.
The current accelerated its sliding motion and bore the flatboat straight for the middle of the curve.
It would go no higher than our knees, and the sound which the regiment made in marching was like that of a great flatboat going against the current.
I leave by first flatboat and will have all things stir up when you come.
And presently, at a signal from us, a big flatboat left its shore, swung out and circled on the polished current, and grounded at length in the mud below us.
I could distinguish on the great flatboat that had followed us, carrying our provisions and our horses, my own mare, Fatima, with her proudly arched neck.
The ole man had ben sick ever sence they left Pittsburg, and they was both plum tuckered out with that long flatboat trip.
It was coming down the Ohio on that long journey by flatboat that she suddenly woke to the knowledge that her husband's illness had left him a broken-down old man, as weak and irresponsible as a child.
As he was ten times as rich as I was, I didn't exactly like the idea of his going as a common hand, although on my flatboat there was no other position for him.
I should state here that my flatboat was one made after a fashion of my own.
They would have made a leak which would have carried themselves and the flatboat to the bottom, and likely enough ourselves, too, for you must know it is no easy matter to make your way through the Mississippi at high water.
It must have been that he was on the lookout for us, for before the flatboat was made fast to the shore, he, with Michael Rouse and Ben Cushing, was calling out words of welcome, and asking how the journey had progressed.
One afternoon just before sunset, when we had come in from fishing, two Delaware braves came over to our flatboat and made themselves very much at home, without any invitation.
Within an hour after we had moored the flatboat to the bank, Master Devoll came on board.
The next April saw young Lincoln piloting another flatboatdown the Mississippi to New Orleans.
He intended, in the spring, to load this on a flatboat and send it down the river to New Orleans.
Mr. Offut, the owner of the flatboat which he had taken down, then employed him to act as clerk in a country store which he had at New Salem.
I promised faithfully to pay for that cargo of salt to-day, so that it would be on the river bank ready for loading when the flatboat comes to-morrow.
We have also had news of the coming of a large flatboat with a rich cargo, which is due to pass down the river by Duff's Fort some time during to-morrow night.
He orders anything I wish; and when it comes to him, he sends it on to me by the first flatboat cordelled up the river.
Presently several came close to the flatboat and showed us two deer and some wild turkeys and ducks, the spoils of their hunting.
But when it happened that the flatboat made an early stop to let our men rest, the programme was changed.
The flatboat continued its course, and some slight signs of civilization began to appear at long intervals.
When we had brilliant moonlight the flatboat would continue its course to a late hour.
At last, thanks to Heaven, our flatboat came off victor over the snags, and after some hours we arrived at the Indian village of which you have heard me tell.
Here our flatboat made a détour and entered Bayou Plaquemine.
The flatboat has probably but ten minutes to live.
Think how reassuring all this was, and the more when they informed us that this was the first time a flatboat had ventured into the bayou!
One evening the flatboat stopped a few miles only from where is now the village of Pattersonville.
On the morrow the people in the flatboat came to say good-bye.
Towards the end of a beautiful day in June, six weeks after our departure from New Orleans, the flatboat stopped at the pass of Lake Chicot.
At last the 15th of May came, and papa took us on board the flatboat and helped us to find our way to our apartment.
Toward the end of the month, when Somers returned from horse-hunting, Bostil put him and Shugrue to work upon the big flatboat down at the crossing.
She saw the big flatboat sweep into line of sight at the same time Joel turned into the current.
Perhaps once a month the big, clumsyflatboat was rowed across the river with horses or cattle or sheep.
In 1830 his father moved to Illinois, where Lincoln helped build the cabin and split the rails to fence in the land, and then went on another flatboat voyage to New Orleans.
The flatboat was usually twelve feet wide and forty feet long, with high sides and a flat or slightly arched top, and was steered, and when necessary was rowed, by long oars or sweeps.
Trade was evidently not brisk at New Salem, for the commercial zeal of Offutt led him to increase his venture by renting the Rutledge and Cameron mill, on whose historic dam the flatboat had stuck.
It was doubtless this which three years later brought him a new experience, that he himself related in these words: "When he was nineteen, still residing in Indiana, he made his first trip upon a flatboat to New Orleans.
As soon as I see him in the water I’ll whistle, an’ ye must cut loose from the flatboat an’ pick him up.
About 10 o’clock in the forenoon a flatboat might have been seen moored in front of the cabin.
He had been on the point of pronouncing his own name—one that had more than once struck terror to a braver heart than the captain of the flatboat possessed—but recollected himself in time, and gave the first one that came to his mind.
While this conversation was going on the crew had been busy casting off the lines with which the flatboat was made fast to the bank, and now one of them sung out: “All gone, sir.
As he sprung upon the deck of the flatboat he was met by the captain, who was impatiently awaiting his appearance.
IF ANY one on board that flatboat is crazy it is Jack Bowles.
The flatboat was still in plain view, for the current carried both her and him down the river at an almost equal rate of speed.
The captain of the flatboat had just left him, with the information that if Jack did not return in half an hour he would be obliged to start without him, for he could wait no longer.
The captain gave the necessary orders to the pilot, called up his crew to man the sweeps, and in a few seconds the bow of the flatboat was turned toward the shore.
He had left him on board a flatboat more than a thousand miles away, and here he was in the mountains where he least expected to see him, ready now and able to carry out his plans against Julian’s life.
DOWN THE RIVER" The launching of that flatboat was made a feast-day in the neighborhood.
A flatboat belonging to Allen's father was loaded with bacon and other farm merchandise for the southern market.
Denton Offutt spent so much time drinking in a tavern at the village of Springfield that the flatboat was not ready when the trio arrived to take it and its cargo down the river.
The easiest and best mode of travel in those days was by flatboatdown the river.
As early as 1782, we are told, Jacob Yoder, a Pennsylvania German, set sail from the Monongahela country with the first flatboat to descend the Ohio and Mississippi.
From Natchez to New Orleans the charge for transportation by flatboat was a dollar and a half a bag.
The bags contained from one hundred and fifty to two hundred and fifty pounds, and each flatboat carried about two hundred and fifty bags.
The flatboat and barge therefore served the West and its commerce as the Conestoga and turnpike served the East.
Though few Europeans had made this laborious journey before 1800, the Natchez Trace had been for many years the land route of thousands of returning rivermen who had descended the Mississippi in flatboatand barge.
If we ask how he loaded his flatboat or barge, we are told that "one squint of his eye would blister a bull's heel.
The Flatboat Age In the early twenties of the last century one of the popular songs of the day was "The Hunters of Kentucky.
Henry Stevens's flatboat had been ready to start for New Orleans for two days.
Slowly the flatboat of which Henry Stevens was owner and master drifted by, while the three or four men at each long oar strode back and forward on the deck as they urged the boat on.
As silently as possible, the great flatboat which we had brought from St. Simon's was filled with men.
Some of our men had worked upon these very batteries, so that they could easily guide us; and by the additional discovery of a largeflatboat we were enabled to go to work in earnest upon the removal of the treasure.
In the month of March, 1831, in company with others, I commenced the building of a flatboat on the Sangamon, and finished and took her out in the course of the spring.
In February, 1831, a Mr. Denton Offutt wanted to engage John Hanks to take a flatboat to New Orleans.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flatboat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
