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A canal-boat had left Antwerp for Brussels that morning, and in the vicinity of the latter city had been set upon by a detachment from the English garrison of Bergen-op-Zoom, and captured, with twelve prisoners and a freight of 60,000 florins in money. "This struck the company at the dinner-table all in a dump;" said Cecil.
Elmer; "but I wish it were flat-bottomed, and built of thick boards instead of that thin bark." "Oh, mother!" said Mark, "you might as well wish it were a canal-boat at once." "Yes, I believe canal-boats are generally considered safer than canoes," answered his mother with a smile.
At one place we saw a canal-boat with sails, but as the day was still it lay inactive, fastened to an iron post. The settlement seemed to be comparatively recent, judging by the small apple-trees around the buildings, and it looked as if this section of the country had all been waste land until the canal had been put through.
After a reflective pause, Harris added, "A little less than an inch a day; a little less than an INCH, mind you. Well, I'm losing my reverence for glaciers." I was feeling much the same way myself. I have traveled by canal-boat, ox-wagon, raft, and by the Ephesus and Smyrna railway; but when it comes down to good solid honest slow motion, I bet my money on the glacier.
If that wretched boarder had not taken the rudder for an ironing table he might have steered in shore! Again and again I confounded as far as mental ejaculations could do it his suggestions. I was rapidly becoming frantic when I met a person who hailed me. "Hello!" he said, "are you after a canal-boat adrift?" "Yes," I panted. "I thought you was," he said. "You looked that way.
The old one has never been the same since I made a windlass of it for the battleship when it was a canal-boat, and it fell into the water when we made a landslide and accident which was buried for three days and had a worm in the works. Also a v. sharp knife for reindeer, etc. They are tough, I hear, and my knife is sharpest at the back since opening sardines and other tins, all rather small."
"An' he wants a cook to make soup! In a canal-boat!" said she, and off she marched into the back-room, followed closely by all the other women. "I don't think we have any one here who would suit you," said Mrs. Blaine. I didn't think so either. What on earth would Euphemia have done with that volcanic Irishwoman in her little kitchen! I took up my hat and bade Mrs. Blaine good morning.
He engaged the maid in a casual parley which he led swiftly to a flirtation. She was a lonely maid and her plighted lover was away on a canal-boat. Connery had little difficulty in winning her to the acceptance of an invitation to visit a movie-show on her first evening off.
"A boat-house?" asked the man. "No, a house-boat," I gasped. "Didn't see nuthin' like it," said the man, and he passed on, to his wife and home, no doubt. But me! Oh, where was my wife and my home? I met several people, but none of them had seen a fugitive canal-boat. How many thoughts came into my brain as I ran along that river road!
And yet this ultra-orthodox age which would suppress the ICONOCLAST if it could for poking fun at Poll Parrot preachers has not become crazed over Mary Magdalen has not so much as named a canal-boat or a cocktail for her.
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