I remember what Sam Grant said about it [the Mississippi River] : ‘Too thick to drink and too thin to plough. It stinks.’ Not that he’d have drunk it anyway, unless it had been pure corn liquor from Cairo down.
Flash For Freedom!, pp.164-65, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.
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