The elders of the party were not long in discovering the fact, which almost all travelers to the west soon find out; that the water was poor. It must have been by a lucky premonition of this that they all had brandy flasks with which to qualify the water of the country; and it was no doubt from an uneasy feeling of the danger of being poisoned that they kept experimenting, mixing a little of the dangerous and changing fluid, as they passed along. This is the only work in which Twain collaborated with another author, something he vowed never to do again.

(Key Words: Senators, Fiction, Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, Washington, Corruption, Tennessee, Charles Dudley Warner).