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Updated: June 19, 2025
'I suppose, Charley, you'll have to make an entry about that barge on Monday morning, won't you? said Linda. 'Mind you put in it how beautiful I looked sailing through the arch. 'Yes, and how very gallant the bargeman was, said Norman. 'Yes, and how much you enjoyed the idea of going down the river with him, while, we came back to the Cottage, said Charley.
He had known Ulysses when he used to run away from the classrooms to row in the harbor and, on account of the bad state of his eyes, he had finally retired from the navigation of coast vessels, descending to be a simple bargeman. His gravity and corpulence had something almost priestly in character.
Luckily a bargeman made a grasp at him as he was going down, and held him till he could be lifted into his boat. He was carried to the landing-place in a state of great exhaustion. George has been, of course, obnoxious to the Opposition from his services, and from his real activity and intelligence in office. He is good-natured, however, and has made no enemies.
He ran on, trying to get ahead of the boat, creeping through hedges, frightened lest he should not be able to find the canal! Now he stopped, sure that he had lost it; his brain seemed to be giving way, and he ran on like a mad child up the bank. Oh, what joy! The canal flowed underneath the bank. The horse had just passed, the barge was coming, and Ulick ran down the bank calling to the bargeman.
When Riderhood had run to his second windlass and turned it, and while he leaned against the lever of that gate to help it to swing open presently, he noticed, lying to rest under the green hedge by the towing-path astern of the Lock, a Bargeman.
"Come back, yes!" returned the other petulantly, "I had to, mislaid a letter, must have left it here, somewhere. Did you find it?" "Axing your pardon, sir, but might you be name o' Barrymaine, no offence, but might you?" The shaggy head had slid quite into the room now, bringing after it a short, thick-set person clad after the fashion of a bargeman. "Yes; what do you want?"
"Are you a bargeman? Do you steer the barge or do you drive the horse?" "I'll tell you about the barge if you'll tell me about your mother. Does she tell you not to come down to the canal?" The boy turned away his head and nodded it. "Does she beat you if she catches you here?" "Oh, no, mother never beats me." "Is she kind to you?"
He plunged into the water, getting through the bulrushes. Half of the barge had passed him, and he held out his hands. The ground gave way and he went under the water; green light took the place of day, and when he struggled to the surface he saw the rudder moving. He went under again, and remembered no more until he opened his eyes and saw the bargeman leaning over him.
There was something of the riverside about him; he might be a dockman, or even a bargeman. He looked intelligent, however, and bore himself with much modesty. 'Now do endeavour to write in shorter sentences, said Biffen, who sat down by him and resumed the lesson, Reardon having taken up a volume.
He had often asked his father if he might see the bargemen's cabin; and his father had promised him that the next time they went to the canal he should go on board a barge and see the cabin; but his father had gone away to the wars. Now he was in the bargemen's cabin, and he wondered if they were going to give him supper and if he would be a bargeman himself when he grew up to be a man.
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