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They
passed
under
Kew
Bridge
,
broadside
,
at
the
rate
of
eight
miles
an
hour
.
Joskins
being
the
only
one
who
was
rowing
.
George
,
on
recovering
his
seat
,
tried
to
help
him
,
but
,
on
dipping
his
oar
into
the
water
,
it
immediately
,
to
his
intense
surprise
,
disappeared
under
the
boat
,
and
nearly
took
him
with
it
.
And
then
"
cox
"
threw
both
rudder
lines
over-board
,
and
burst
into
tears
.
How
they
got
back
George
never
knew
,
but
it
took
them
just
forty
minutes
.
A
dense
crowd
watched
the
entertainment
from
Kew
Bridge
with
much
interest
,
and
everybody
shouted
out
to
them
different
directions
.
Three
times
they
managed
to
get
the
boat
back
through
the
arch
,
and
three
times
they
were
carried
under
it
again
,
and
every
time
"
cox
"
looked
up
and
saw
the
bridge
above
him
he
broke
out
into
renewed
sobs
.
George
said
he
little
thought
that
afternoon
that
he
should
ever
come
to
really
like
boating
.
Harris
is
more
accustomed
to
sea
rowing
than
to
river
work
,
and
says
that
,
as
an
exercise
,
he
prefers
it
.
I
do
n't
.
I
remember
taking
a
small
boat
out
at
Eastbourne
last
summer
:
I
used
to
do
a
good
deal
of
sea
rowing
years
ago
,
and
I
thought
I
should
be
all
right
;
but
I
found
I
had
forgotten
the
art
entirely
.
When
one
scull
was
deep
down
underneath
the
water
,
the
other
would
be
flourishing
wildly
about
in
the
air
.
To
get
a
grip
of
the
water
with
both
at
the
same
time
I
had
to
stand
up
.
The
parade
was
crowded
with
nobility
and
gentry
,
and
I
had
to
pull
past
them
in
this
ridiculous
fashion
.
I
landed
half-way
down
the
beach
,
and
secured
the
services
of
an
old
boatman
to
take
me
back
.
I
like
to
watch
an
old
boatman
rowing
,
especially
one
who
has
been
hired
by
the
hour
.
There
is
something
so
beautifully
calm
and
restful
about
his
method
.
It
is
so
free
from
that
fretful
haste
,
that
vehement
striving
,
that
is
every
day
becoming
more
and
more
the
bane
of
nineteenth-century
life
.
He
is
not
for
ever
straining
himself
to
pass
all
the
other
boats
.
If
another
boat
overtakes
him
and
passes
him
it
does
not
annoy
him
;
as
a
matter
of
fact
,
they
all
do
overtake
him
and
pass
him
--
all
those
that
are
going
his
way
.
This
would
trouble
and
irritate
some
people
;
the
sublime
equanimity
of
the
hired
boatman
under
the
ordeal
affords
us
a
beautiful
lesson
against
ambition
and
uppishness
.
Plain
practical
rowing
of
the
get-the-boat-along
order
is
not
a
very
difficult
art
to
acquire
,
but
it
takes
a
good
deal
of
practice
before
a
man
feels
comfortable
,
when
rowing
past
girls
.
It
is
the
"
time
"
that
worries
a
youngster
.
"
It
's
jolly
funny
,
"
he
says
,
as
for
the
twentieth
time
within
five
minutes
he
disentangles
his
sculls
from
yours
;
"
I
can
get
on
all
right
when
I
'm
by
myself
!
"
To
see
two
novices
try
to
keep
time
with
one
another
is
very
amusing
.
Bow
finds
it
impossible
to
keep
pace
with
stroke
,
because
stroke
rows
in
such
an
extraordinary
fashion
.
Stroke
is
intensely
indignant
at
this
,
and
explains
that
what
he
has
been
endeavouring
to
do
for
the
last
ten
minutes
is
to
adapt
his
method
to
bow
's
limited
capacity
.
Bow
,
in
turn
,
then
becomes
insulted
,
and
requests
stroke
not
to
trouble
his
head
about
him
(
bow
)
,
but
to
devote
his
mind
to
setting
a
sensible
stroke
.
"
Or
,
shall
I
take
stroke
?
"
he
adds
,
with
the
evident
idea
that
that
would
at
once
put
the
whole
matter
right
.
They
splash
along
for
another
hundred
yards
with
still
moderate
success
,
and
then
the
whole
secret
of
their
trouble
bursts
upon
stroke
like
a
flash
of
inspiration
.
