Little Rivers : a book of Essays in Profitable Idleness

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The deck is open for fifteen feet aft of the place where the bowsprit ought to be ; behind that it is completely covered by a house, cabin, cottage, or whatever you choose to call it, with straight sides and a peaked roof of a very early Gothic pattern. Looking in at the door you see, first of all, two cots, one on either side of the pas- sage; then an open space with a dining-table, a stove, and some chairs ; beyond that a pantry with shelves, and a great chest for provisions.
A door at the ba
...ck opens into the kitchen, and from that another door opens into a sleeping- 118 THE BE8TIG0UCHE room for the boatmen. A huge wooden tiller curves over the stem of the boat, and the helms- man stands upon the kitchen-roof. Two canoes are floating behind, holding back, at the end of their long tow-ropes, as if reluctant to follow so clumsy a leader. This is an accurate and duly- attested description of the horse-yacht. If nec- essary it could be sworn to before a notary pub- lic But 1 am perfectly sure that you might read this through without skipping a word, and if you had never seen the creature with your own eyes, you would have no idea how absurd it looks and how comfortable it is.

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