"But, they said, while this contraption puffing like a teakettle might be all very well coming down- stream, it would never work upstream against the strong current (Steamboats on the Mississippi)."
Discussion
"When friends heard that Mrs. Roosevelt planned to go downriver on the new boat with her husband, they protested that it was impossible because she was soon to become a mother. But she had paid no attention when some of the same friends had told her, two years before, that it was not proper to go on a honeymoon trip to New Or- leans on a flatboat, and she paid no attention now. When the New Orleans set out, in the fall, she was aboard(Ibid)"
