The Badminton Magazine 1898-06: Vol 6 Iss 35 (1898)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 20
ment of their boats, good-tempered, intelligent, and courteous, they are almost childishly simple in many of their ways. No joke seems to be too babyish to please them, and set them off into peals of merry laughter. I remember one day, when we were rowing down a long lake, Jack put out a spoon on a… … DRAGGING THE BOAT OVERLAND Jack saw through the transparent trick, but pretended to haul in the line and then let it out, as though the fish had gone; the trick was repeated again and again, and for an hour down that lake this little play kept the three men in fits of merri- ment. Then on one hot…
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