. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. oating things, all kept in the most perfectorder. Like many amateurs of boating, our new friend likes towork with his own hands. He showed us a portable canvas boatthat he had made himself, and there was another sloop in thegarage, keel uppermost, that he was engaged in caulking. Hehad a Canadian canoe, bought in London, and other interestingthings. But this is nothing, said M. Vibert, there is anothergarage close by which is far superior to this. I must take youto it now. He then guided us past the bridge wher
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. oating things, all kept in the most perfectorder. Like many amateurs of boating, our new friend likes towork with his own hands. He showed us a portable canvas boatthat he had made himself, and there was another sloop in thegarage, keel uppermost, that he was engaged in caulking. Hehad a Canadian canoe, bought in London, and other interestingthings. But this is nothing, said M. Vibert, there is anothergarage close by which is far superior to this. I must take youto it now. He then guided us past the bridge where anotheryacht was at her moorings, and introduced us to his friend Y 2 324 The Saoue. M. Zipfel, who has a pretty house and garden close to the river-side In the garden is a very long, well-lighted building thatmight serve for an infant school. This is the garage. It is asort of museum of the prettiest boating toys and, in fact, is keptas neatly as any museum can be. M. Zipfel works with hishands, too ; but few amateur boat-builders could compete withhim in delicacv and a Petite Amie in a Light Breeze. There are several small yachts in the Port of Neuville, all ofthe same type, namely, the centre-board sloop, which is foundmost convenient for the river. We visited two of these,M. Viberts Petite Amie and M. Zipfels Croquemitaine. Everyplace soon acquires its own boating character. At Chalon thisis scientific, but rather rough, and the local building is done insteel ; at Neuville both the boats themselves and all theirbelongings are kept with a perfection of care and order that A Summer Voyage. 325 cannot be excelled anywhere. They are of Parisian build, andof wood. M. Zipfel has a light centre-board boat for rowing andsailing that he lent us for an excursion to the Albigny Vibert and a friend of his offered to row us, the littlecardinal-hatted boys accompanied us, and in a few minutes ourvoyage had assumed quite an unexpected character. It was nolonger the
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