A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . house boat, work on which was in-terrupted by the recent week spent atcamp at Cloudland. Mr. King says theboys are going to launch their house-boat with all kinds of salty ceremony,including the selection of a fair younglady sponsor, the reading of passagesfrom the manual and a speech or so,and free lemonade and all the sand-wiches anybody could eat. It is unnecessary to say the SnakeDoctor Fleet will take official recog-nition of the event and t
A history of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of America; including numerous incidents of more than local interest, 1540-1922 . house boat, work on which was in-terrupted by the recent week spent atcamp at Cloudland. Mr. King says theboys are going to launch their house-boat with all kinds of salty ceremony,including the selection of a fair younglady sponsor, the reading of passagesfrom the manual and a speech or so,and free lemonade and all the sand-wiches anybody could eat. It is unnecessary to say the SnakeDoctor Fleet will take official recog-nition of the event and turn out in fullarray, and will sound their gongs andtoot their whistles as the strange craftslips from the ways. The honor ofpushing the house boat a piece up theOostanaula will then be given one ofthe visiting host. Mr. Kings boys have built the houseboat entirely without help. They laidher keel and sides, nailed on the crosspieces for the bottom, poured tar pitchon the outside and painted her withtar inside. The boats length is 22 feetand her width 8 feet. She will be ascow for a while, because Mr. King saidthe patience of the boys would be. MODERN EXPLORERS ON THE PLACID OOSTANAULA. Miscellaneous—Scout Section 431 threadbare if he tried to put on thehouse part right away. So they are go-ing to slip her sidewise in the water andrig out some cross pieces for the 32Scouts to perch upon. Part of them will bail until the boatseems to stop leaking, then everybodywill sit on the seats and yell defiantlyat all passing craft. Presently the en-gine will be installed so she can kickalong under her own power. Whethershe will be fitted out with a propelleror rear wheel like a steamboat has notbeen decided. The Annie H. has a rearpaddle wheel, and works with a motorforward. The Scouts have two months of va-cation left and plenty of afternoonsthereafter, and they seem determinedto spend a good part of it on the water.—July 14, 1921. SCOUTS LAUNCH HOUSE BOAT—An event in the life of th
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