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...st published in 1920, Bunny and Sue lose a valuable possession belonging to their mother. They have many adventures and misadventures during a family boating vacation to Christmas Tree Cove. (Introduction by S. McGaughey)...

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...Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over to the point where t...

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...Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) , published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford.The book was intended initially to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history of places along the route, but the humorous elements eventually took over,...

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...hrough the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll affectionately brought together many of the wonderful stories he told to Alice and her sisters on long summer boating trips....

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...f Sail before Industrialism had taken possession of Britain. Leslie comments on the early days of singlehanded small boat sailing: When I first began boating in the early forties[1840s], what is now called single-handed cruising was almost unknown among amateurs....people had a vague dread of it. Much of this has passed away, and hundreds of amateur boatmen, and even ladie...

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... of Horace: his love of nature, his fondness for rustic surroundings, his boating on the river Aufidus, his fishing. He liked to play ball. I could ...

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...m amused, and have done all I dare to make the pair happy, picnicking and boating. I have seen him at play on the field, built well, long of leg, wi...

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...m amused, and have done all I dare to make the pair happy, picnicking and boating. I have seen him at play on the field, built well, long of leg, wi... ... of Horace: his love of nature, his fondness for rustic surroundings, his boating on the river Aufidus, his fishing. He liked to play ball. I could ...

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...s in the province, about three hundred square miles I think. I’ll take you boating next summer if you like.” If I like! Of course I like. He is thinki...

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...gned to have thousands of humans swimming in them. Or snorkeling in them, or boating on them and depositing poisonous minerals, and subterranean oi...

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...e I forgot where I was, and have treated you to one of my old dreams in my boatings at home. You may quiz me as much as you please tomorrow. Good nigh... ...ou. I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings. It is a sort of life.’ Charles had never till now alluded serious... ...e in what was his duty, and enjoy only what was bad for him?’ He had tried boating, but it had distracted him from his work; so he had been obliged to... ...d with its two fat volumes, you could not help delighting in it. It was my boating-book for at least three summers.’ ‘That accounts for it,’ said Phil... ...s- caped being shot. Yet it did not prevent a few sighs being spent on the boating. ‘Can’t you forget it?’ said Guy, smiling. ‘You have no loss, after... ...d Guy, smiling. ‘You have no loss, after all, for we are likely to have no boating weather this long time. Hark! don’t you hear the ground-swell?’ ‘Wh...

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...y clearly defined by him, but hopefully construed by his hearers. Sure enough there was the slip in the corner of the basin; and at the top of it two ... ...ng the superscription Royal Sport Nautique, and joined in the talk. They were all very polite, voluble, and enthusiastic; and their discourse was inte... ...ilders and English clubs. I do not know, to my shame, any spot in my native land where I should have been so warmly received by the same number of peo... ... not know how it happened, but next moment we were out in the rain and darkness, and I was cursing before the carriage entry like a disappointed mendi... ... or two of English, to have drunk English aff-’n-aff, and perhaps performed in an English music-hall. He is a countryman of mine by profession. He lea...

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...r picture, and a pleasing one. The young lady and the young gentleman wore boating hats, and were both dressed in white, and standing by or just turni...

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... into emptiness before the fame he inherits. Shelley’s favourite taste was boating; when living near the Thames or by the Lake of Geneva, much of his ... ... (except in win- ter-time, when the stream is too turbid and impetuous for boating) rendered it difficult to get any skiff light enough to float. Shel... ... Life”, on which he was employed at the last. 237 Shelley His passion for boating was fostered at this time by having among our friends several sailo...

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... and horseflesh. The respectable inhabitants of the place, men in golf and boating costumes, wives prettily dressed, were pack- ing, river-side loafer... ...mond, Putney, and Kingston, containing people who had gone out for a day’s boating and found the locks closed and a feeling of panic in the air. A man...

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...aying with him in Brazil, and had even carried it off to read one day on a boating party; but they had all got to shying things at each other in the b... ... us that she hadn’t read ‘The Supreme Instant’ because she’d taken it on a boating party while she was staying with her brother, and some one had ‘shi...

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...edented spectacle! At Appledore, the only place on that rugged coast where boating tempted them, there was what they called a pretty little breeze, bu... ...ng, however, the bay proved to be so rocky and dangerous that there was no boating across it, as he had con- 206 Chantry House fidently expected. The... ...iated on its charms; the rocks I might sketch, the waves and the delicious boating, and above all the fisher children and the church. Nothing was want...

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...-whisk, although this last was dear to my heart. Thus I found room for everything in the basket, and even stowed the boating-coat on the top. By means...

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... good while later had more heart for play than work. Cricket, bathing, and boating were his delight; and though his school-work was conscientiously ac... ... throw of my win- dow. The lads and young men have their fishing, bathing, boating, and basking in the sun, which all day from sunrise to sunset beats... ... was conspicu- ous. Mr. Atkin was a fearless boatman, and the knowledge of boating he gained with us at sea was well supplemented when in Auckland, wh... ...ged in the most thorough manner, Auckland being at times a rough place for boating. He (Mr. Atkin) pulled a 372 Life of John Coleridge Patteson good ... ...e employed as teachers, &c.; and as Norfolk Island is a bad place to learn boating, there is great need of some one to take his place, for a good boat... ...tay at Mota), they remained on board, rejoining me, as they were two of my boating crew, for the New Hebrides trip! This was very com- forting. And wh... ...arge. Thank God, we are all well, save dear old Fisher, who met with a sad boating accident last week. A coil of the boat raft caught his ankle as the...

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... there ‘s a country house open on the upper Thames, you can have swimming, boating, botanizing …’ He saw her throat swallow. But as he was offering ag... ... to await you?’ That innocent little question was a day gained. One day of boating on the upper reaches of the pastoral river, and walks in woods and ...