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We had knocked over a good many wild-fowl, which made us wish that we had a dog with us to bring them out, as we had a good deal of trouble in rowing after them. At length Stanley shot a beautiful flamingo, which went away paddling down the stream at a great rate. We pursued.
I've helped Neal.... "I couldn't swallow a mouthful not in the lunch hour. I couldn't face it. It's true, George I couldn't face it. I said I'd get a bit of air and slipped out and down to the Embankment, and there I took a boat to Richmond. Some idee. I took a rowing boat when I got there and I rowed about on the river for a bit.
I involuntarily ceased rowing and Pomp did the same, just as we were entering the narrow channel, and so close to the sandspit, that the blade of the boy's oar held ready for the next dip swept over the sand. Pomp was gazing in the other direction, scanning the river-bank; and as I saw what was about to happen, I said in a quick whisper "Look out!"
Sappho was leaning against Bartja. Syloson, the brother of Polykrates, had made himself a comfortable resting-place next to Darius, who was looking thought fully into the water. Gyges and Zopyrus busied themselves in making wreaths for the women, from the flowers handed them by an Egyptian slave. "It seems hardly possible," said Bartja, "that we can be rowing against the stream.
"That was on Sunday? You moved them on Sunday?" "Yes, sir." "At what time did you retire that night?" "Not at all. The water was very high. I lay down, dressed, at one o'clock, and dropped into a doze." "How long did you sleep?" "An hour or so. Mr. Reynolds, a boarder, roused me to say he had heard some one rowing a boat in the lower hall." "Do you keep a boat around during flood times?"
To have reasoned a few years ago that because Yale had beaten Harvard at rowing almost every year for fifteen years it had a permanent superiority in the strength and skill of its oarsmen would have been dangerous, for when the years before the given period were looked up they would have shown results the other way.
"Do you call this rowing dry?" cried another, as a sea swept over the boat, fore and aft, wetting everybody to the skin. "Now, your honour, just look and see if I ain't pulling the very arms off me?" cried Sullivan. "Is there water enough to cross the bridge, Swinburne?" said I to the coxswain. "Plenty, Mr Simple; it is but quarter ebb, and the sooner we are on board the better."
He was willing, now, to accept any sort of boat, for he was fond of rowing; but Squire Carter had just heard unfavorable reports from his broker about a speculation he had entered into, and he was inflexible. "What a fool I was!" reflected Conrad, bitterly. "My boat was a good one, even if it wasn't as fine as Andy's, and now I have none.
He lived on in his deep seclusion, happy in having his wife and child with him, but caring for no other society. During the day he remained in his study, which overlooked the old battle-field, or, passing down the lawn at the back of the house to the river, spent the afternoon in rowing on the pretty stream.
Edward did not like canoes, and the issue was, that, having seen Owen on board, Springrove proposed to pull off after him with a pair of sculls; but not considering himself sufficiently accomplished to do finished rowing before a parade full of promenaders when there was a little swell on, and with the rudder unshipped in addition, he begged that Cytherea might come with him and steer as before.
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