River
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"What's that?" said Harris - "a frying-pan?""No," said George, with a strange, wild look glittering in his eyes; "they are all the rage this season; everybody has got them up the
river.
Harris, who is callous in his nature, and not prone to pity, said:"Ah! and now you are going to have a hard time on the
river
for a change; change is good for everyone.
The man on the bank, who is trying to disentangle it, thinks all the fault lies with the man who rolled it up; and when a man up the
river
thinks a thing, he says it.
One sees a good many funny incidents up the
river
in connection with towing.
It seemed early to think about shutting up then, however, with the sun still in the heavens, and we settled to push straight on for Runnymead, three and a half miles further, a quiet wooded part of the river, and where there is good shelter.
I remember being terribly upset once up the
river
(in a figurative sense, I mean).
The
river
stretched out straight before us in the twilight for about a mile; not a ghost of a lock was to be seen.
I still went on pulling, however, and still no lock came in sight, and the
river
grew more and more gloomy and mysterious under the gathering shadows of night, and things seemed to be getting weird and uncanny.
We had originally intended to go on to Magna Charta Island, a sweetly pretty part of the river, where it winds through a soft, green valley, and to camp in one of the many picturesque inlets to be found round that tiny shore.
That is the only way to get a kettle to boil up the
river.
The idea, overnight, had been that we should get up early in the morning, fling off our rugs and shawls, and, throwing back the canvas, spring into the
river
with a joyous shout, and revel in a long delicious swim.
Little was in sight to remind us of the nineteenth century; and, as we looked out upon the
river
in the morning sunlight, we could almost fancy that the centuries between us and that ever-to-be-famous June morning of 1215 had been drawn aside, and that we, English yeomen's sons in homespun cloth, with dirk at belt, were waiting there to witness the writing of that stupendous page of history, the meaning whereof was to be translated to the common people some four hundred and odd years later by one Oliver Cromwell, who had deeply studied it.
And now, lo! down upon the road that winds along the
river'
s bank from Staines there come towards us, laughing and talking together in deep guttural bass, a half-a-score of stalwart halbert-men - Barons' men, these - and halt at a hundred yards or so above us, on the other bank, and lean upon their arms, and wait.
And all the
river
down to Staines is dotted with small craft and boats and tiny coracles - which last are growing out of favour now, and are used only by the poorer folk.
From Picnic Point to Old Windsor Lock is a delightful bit of the
river.
A shady road, dotted here and there with dainty little cottages, runs by the bank up to the "Bells of Ouseley," a picturesque inn, as most up-
river
inns are, and a place where a very good glass of ale may be drunk - so Harris says; and on a matter of this kind you can take Harris's word.
After you pass Old Windsor, the
river
is somewhat uninteresting, and does not become itself again until you are nearing Boveney.
George and I towed up past the Home Park, which stretches along the right bank from Albert to Victoria Bridge; and as we were passing Datchet, George asked me if I remembered our first trip up the river, and when we landed at Datchet at ten o'clock at night, and wanted to go to bed.
There was one great dent across the top that had the appearance of a mocking grin, and it drove us furious, so that Harris rushed at the thing, and caught it up, and flung it far into the middle of the river, and as it sank we hurled our curses at it, and we got into the boat and rowed away from the spot, and never paused till we reached Maidenhead.
It is the haunt of the
river
swell and his overdressed female companion.
It is the witch's kitchen from which go forth those demons of the
river
- steam- launches.
In its unbroken loveliness this is, perhaps, the sweetest stretch of all the river, and lingeringly we slowly drew our little boat away from its deep peace.
A stiffish breeze had sprung up - in our favour, for a wonder; for, as a rule on the river, the wind is always dead against you whatever way you go.
We had the
river
to ourselves, except that, far in the distance, we could see a fishing-punt, moored in mid-stream, on which three fishermen sat; and we skimmed over the water, and passed the wooded banks, and no one spoke.
- A PEACEFUL DOG. - STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF HARRIS AND A PIE.MARLOW is one of the pleasantest
river
centres I know of.
There is lovely country round about it, too, if, after boating, you are fond of a walk, while the
river
itself is at its best here.
Just before you come to the abbey, and right on the
river'
s bank, is Bisham Church, and, perhaps, if any tombs are worth inspecting, they are the tombs and monuments in Bisham Church.
The village of Hurley, five minutes' walk from the lock, is as old a little spot as there is on the river, dating, as it does, to quote the quaint phraseology of those dim days, "from the times of King Sebert and King Offa."
Strange that Nature's voices all around them - the soft singing of the waters, the whisperings of the
river
grass, the music of the rushing wind - should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this.
From Medmenham to sweet Hambledon Lock the
river
is full of peaceful beauty, but, after it passes Greenlands, the rather uninteresting looking
river
residence of my newsagent - a quiet unassuming old gentleman, who may often be met with about these regions, during the summer months, sculling himself along in easy vigorous style, or chatting genially to some old lock-keeper, as he passes through - until well the other side of Henley, it is somewhat bare and dull.
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