upsettable

Updated: May 17, 2025

All I had had to do was to stroll down the path bordering the river, run my eye over a group of boats lying side by side like a school of trout with their noses up-stream, pick out the widest, flattest, and least upsettable craft in the fleet, decorate it with a pair of Turkey-red cushions from a pile in the boathouse, and a short mattress, also Turkey-red a good thing at luncheon-hour for a tired back is a mattress slip the key of the padlock of the mooring-chain in my pocket and stroll back again.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - The Under Dog