Is there a Twain sketch titled "Alligator Jack" -- separate from what Twain wrote in _Life on the Mississippi_ -- about Captain/Major John (Jack) B. Downing as described at this web site for "Historic Middleport" Ohio ? http://www.meigscountytourism.com/facts.htm The same story is alluded to at a Downing family website at: http://www.expage.com/page/alligatorjack Thanks, Barb