Stevenson's Inland voyage, and Travels with a donkey . e was procured andchristened, and as the Eleven Thousand Virgins ofCologne, lay for some months, the admired of all admirers,in a pleasant river and under the walls of an ancient Mattras, the accomplished carpenter of Moret, had 25made her a center of emulous labor; and you will not 6 To Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, Bart. have forgotten the amount of sweet champagne consumedin the inn at the bridge end, to give zeal to the workmenand speed to the work. On the financial aspect, I wouldnot willingly dwell. The Eleven Thousand Virgins
Stevenson's Inland voyage, and Travels with a donkey . e was procured andchristened, and as the Eleven Thousand Virgins ofCologne, lay for some months, the admired of all admirers,in a pleasant river and under the walls of an ancient Mattras, the accomplished carpenter of Moret, had 25made her a center of emulous labor; and you will not 6 To Sir Walter Grindlay Simpson, Bart. have forgotten the amount of sweet champagne consumedin the inn at the bridge end, to give zeal to the workmenand speed to the work. On the financial aspect, I wouldnot willingly dwell. The Eleven Thousand Virgins of5 Cologne rotted in the stream where she was felt not the impulse of the breeze; she was neverharnessed to the patient track-horse. And when at lengthshe was sold, by the indignant carpenter of Moret, therewere sold along with her the Arethusa and the Cigarette,10 she of cedar, she, as we knew so keenly on a portage, ofsolid-hearted English oak. Now these historic vessels flythe tricolor and are known by new and alien names. R. L. The Willebroek Canal AN INLAND VOYAGE ANTWERP TO BOOM We made a great stir in the Antwerp Docks. A steve-dore and a lot of dock porters took up the two canoes, andran with them for the slip. A crowd of children followedcheering. The Cigarette went off in a splash and a bubbleof small breaking water, Next moment the Arethusa wTas 5after her. A steamer was coming down, men on thepaddle-box shouted hoarse warnings, the stevedore and hisporters were bawling from the quay. But in a stroke ortwo the canoes were away out in the middle of the Scheldt,and all steamers, and stevedores, and other long-shore 10vanities were left behind. The sun shone brightly; the tide was making—fourjolly miles an hour; the wind blew steadily, with occasionalsqualls. For my part, I had never been in a canoe undersail in my life; and my first experiment out in the middle 15of this big river wTas not made without some would happen when the w
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