In its account of Roxy on the steamboat that carries her "down the river," Pudd'nhead Wilson describes the kind of scene that was wholly absent in "Old Times of the Mississippi":
"The boat bore Roxy away from St. Louis . . . and she stood on the lower guard abaft the paddle-box and watched Tom through a blur of tears . . . then she looked no more, but sat there on a coil of cable crying till far into the night. When she went to her foul steerage-bunk, it was not to sleep, but only . . . to grieve."
The Barrett Collection, UVA PS 1317 .A1 1894