Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
By the order of the author
Per G. G. , Chief of Ordnance.
The adventures of a young boy and his friend, an escaped slave, on the Mississippi river in the Antebellum South.
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
By the order of the author
Per G. G. , Chief of Ordnance.