. Two girls on a barge. es as tended tobelie their owners unappeasable severity. Oh, yes, he had heard of us. Our light wasnot under a bushel. We seemed to have beencreating an alarming sensation in our respectivefamilies. And would we condescend to explain tohim any trivial details of our present undertaking ?The smallest information would oblige. Mean-while, however, he had brought down certainluxuries to accelerate our start, and amongst otherthings he had thought it would be interesting totake the point of view. He was so fortunate as topossess a friend, an embryo , whom, upon con-side
. Two girls on a barge. es as tended tobelie their owners unappeasable severity. Oh, yes, he had heard of us. Our light wasnot under a bushel. We seemed to have beencreating an alarming sensation in our respectivefamilies. And would we condescend to explain tohim any trivial details of our present undertaking ?The smallest information would oblige. Mean-while, however, he had brought down certainluxuries to accelerate our start, and amongst otherthings he had thought it would be interesting totake the point of view. He was so fortunate as topossess a friend, an embryo , whom, upon con-sideration, he would lend to us, provided we askedvery prettily and could persuade the gentleman ofthe advantages of a canal as an artistic field. Andsomewhere from among the packages the appeared. It is needless to go to state that this embryo Barge Painterfulfilled the wildest dreams. Besides which, hecould make hay with a walking-stick, even to rival Edna. Come and visit us before weve eaten all. TWO GIRLS ON A BARGE 17 the grapes, the crew called after this, its unex-pected Providence—a Providence endowed with akeen sense of the ridiculous—as the General tookoff his hat and disappeared into the darkeningrecesses of Moores Wharf; leaving a cartload ofkindly luxuries, a very genuine sensation, and anembryo behind him on a barge. And our own Bargee punted slowly off with along barbed pole, and the old carpenters goodwishes, Pleasant journey to you, sir, floated outfrom the little door in the salt shed wall; and thebrown canal flowed gently round four Water Babieseyeing each other with a certain curiosity as theydrifted out of London silently. 18 TWO GIRLS ON A BARGE CHAPTER II T)AST the salt sheds and the iron crane, wherethe heavy barges sank still lower in the water,slowly punted by a Bargee out into the sunset. Sowe started. And presently the boat diverged as if eager tobe harnessed to the big horse that stood tall andbrown among the children
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