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That
mud-bank
saved
us
.
The
boat
ploughed
its
way
into
the
middle
of
it
and
then
stuck
.
Finding
that
we
were
once
more
able
to
move
according
to
our
ideas
,
instead
of
being
pitched
and
thrown
about
like
peas
in
a
bladder
,
we
crept
forward
,
and
cut
down
the
sail
.
We
had
had
enough
sailing
.
We
did
not
want
to
overdo
the
thing
and
get
a
surfeit
of
it
.
We
had
had
a
sail
--
a
good
all-round
exciting
,
interesting
sail
--
and
now
we
thought
we
would
have
a
row
,
just
for
a
change
like
.
We
took
the
sculls
and
tried
to
push
the
boat
off
the
mud
,
and
,
in
doing
so
,
we
broke
one
of
the
sculls
.
After
that
we
proceeded
with
great
caution
,
but
they
were
a
wretched
old
pair
,
and
the
second
one
cracked
almost
easier
than
the
first
,
and
left
us
helpless
.
The
mud
stretched
out
for
about
a
hundred
yards
in
front
of
us
,
and
behind
us
was
the
water
.
The
only
thing
to
be
done
was
to
sit
and
wait
until
someone
came
by
.
It
was
not
the
sort
of
day
to
attract
people
out
on
the
river
,
and
it
was
three
hours
before
a
soul
came
in
sight
.
It
was
an
old
fisherman
who
,
with
immense
difficulty
,
at
last
rescued
us
,
and
we
were
towed
back
in
an
ignominious
fashion
to
the
boat-yard
.
What
between
tipping
the
man
who
had
brought
us
home
,
and
paying
for
the
broken
sculls
,
and
for
having
been
out
four
hours
and
a
half
,
it
cost
us
a
pretty
considerable
number
of
weeks
'
pocket-money
,
that
sail
.
But
we
learned
experience
,
and
they
say
that
is
always
cheap
at
any
price
.
We
came
in
sight
of
Reading
about
eleven
.
The
river
is
dirty
and
dismal
here
.
One
does
not
linger
in
the
neighbourhood
of
Reading
.
The
town
itself
is
a
famous
old
place
,
dating
from
the
dim
days
of
King
Ethelred
,
when
the
Danes
anchored
their
warships
in
the
Kennet
,
and
started
from
Reading
to
ravage
all
the
land
of
Wessex
;
and
here
Ethelred
and
his
brother
Alfred
fought
and
defeated
them
,
Ethelred
doing
the
praying
and
Alfred
the
fighting
.
In
later
years
,
Reading
seems
to
have
been
regarded
as
a
handy
place
to
run
down
to
,
when
matters
were
becoming
unpleasant
in
London
.
Parliament
generally
rushed
off
to
Reading
whenever
there
was
a
plague
on
at
Westminster
;
and
,
in
1625
,
the
Law
followed
suit
,
and
all
the
courts
were
held
at
Reading
.
It
must
have
been
worth
while
having
a
mere
ordinary
plague
now
and
then
in
London
to
get
rid
of
both
the
lawyers
and
the
Parliament
.
During
the
Parliamentary
struggle
,
Reading
was
besieged
by
the
Earl
of
Essex
,
and
,
a
quarter
of
a
century
later
,
the
Prince
of
Orange
routed
King
James
's
troops
there
.
