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Updated: June 11, 2025
They reached Althorpe, and while waiting for the horse-boat to cross to Burringham, Johnny found time to wonder at the force of two or three gusts which broke on the lapping water and drove it like white smoke against the bows of a black keel, wind-bound and anchored in mid-channel about fifty yards down-stream.
As he turned over the key of the town house he would walk away with a stern dignity to marshal the other servants in the horse-boat. One fifteenth of June two children sat with bated breath in the pinnace, Dorothy Manners and myself. Mistress Dolly was then as mischievous a little baggage as ever she proved afterwards.
Dick's successor in the thirties was an ugly horse-boat that in 1840 gave place to the famous scow of Joe Tom and his men, which for twenty years took picnic parties to the Point. A president of our country, several governors of the State, and Supreme Court judges were among these distinguished passengers. Doing such duty the scow is seen in the 1840 pictures of Cooperstown.
From that time forward, we heard of continuous Confederate victories, and not one Union triumph, till in September, when they admitted that they were repulsed by Rosecrans at Corinth. On reaching the river, we found a great number of persons on the bank waiting to go over. The ferryman was there with a horse-boat, but the wind was so high that he feared to attempt the crossing.
As he turned over the key of the town house he would walk away with a stern dignity to marshal the other servants in the horse-boat. One fifteenth of June two children sat with bated breath in the pinnace, Dorothy Manners and myself. Mistress Dolly was then as mischievous a little baggage as ever she proved afterwards.
And the prospect of travelling in a horse-boat down the Red Sea, even in November, did not appeal to us in the least. However, tired of sleeping in culverts and disused drains we pitched our camp on the top of a plateau overlooking the Canal and prepared to await developments.
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