What May Occur in Towing.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 6 January 1891, Page 2

What May Occur in Towing.

<• He and three other men, so he paid, were sculling a very heavily laden boat up from Maidenhead one evening, and a little above Cookham lock they noticed a fellow and a girl, walking along the tow path, both deep in an apparently interesting and absorbing conversation. They were carrying a boat-hook between them, and, attached to the boat-hook was a tow-line, which trailed behind them, its end in the water. No boat was near, no boat was in sight. There must have been a boat attached to that tow-line at some time or other, that was certain ; but what had become of it, what ghastly fate had overtaken it, and those who had been left in it, was buried in mystery. Whatever the accident may have; been, however, it had in no way disturbed the young lady and gentleman, who were towing. They had the boat-hook and they had the line and that seemed to be all that they

«. George was. about , ; to, call out and wake them tip, b'iit, Xt *ha-t moment. a bright idea flashed across him, and he didn't. He got the hitcher instead, and reached over, and drew in the end of the tow-line ; and they made a loop in it, and put it over their mast, and then they tied up the Sculls-, an4.Werit arid, sat down in the" [lit their pipeS: _ And that young man arid young woman towed these tour hulking chaps and a heavy boat up to Marlow. George said he never saw so much thoughtful sadness concentrated into one glance before, as when, at the lock, that young couple smsped the irtea tiiat, for the last t^o mites, they liad been 1 towing tliu vvrolig boat, j George fancied that, if it had not been for the restraining iui'lupnco of the sweet woman at his sulr\ t:in young man might hav<i «,'iven way ro violent language. The maiden was the first to recover from her surprise, and ( Avlien slie did* she clasped her hands, and said " Oh, Henry then where in auntie ? " Did they ever recover the old lady " ? asked Harris. George replied he did not know. Tliree men in a boat.