Clinker built is a style of wooden boat building where the planks of wood overlap each other where they are joined.
must be used for her; "and we want them to get to know the wet way
come ashore at once, Dick, and you, dear neighbours; there is a break
carry up your things, or send some of the lads after them."
"No, no," said Dick; "it is easier going by water.html">water, though it is but a
We will go on to the ford.html">Ford; and you can talk to us from the bank.html">bank as we
sharp.html">sharp angle and going north a little. Presently we saw before us a
looked in vain for the grey walls that I expected to see.html">see there. As
voices with the cuckoo's song, the sweet strong whistle of the
through the long grass of the mowing-field; whence came waves of
sharp stream that ran from the ford, and beached our craft on a tiny
up-river.html">river.html">river friends, our journey done.
I disentangled myself from the merry throng, and mounting on the
looked round about me. The river came down through a wide meadow on
gleaming water was lost presently by a turn of the bank, but over the
lock must be, and which now seemed to combine a mill with it. A low
whence we had come, and a few low houses lay about its feet.html">feet and up
sprays and long shoots of the wild roses could see the flat country
something that might be called hills with a look of sheep-pastures
boughs still hid most of what houses there might be in this river-
buildings of the simplest kind showed here and there.
There I stood in a dreamy mood, and rubbed my eyes as if I were not
beautiful men and women change to two or three spindle-legged back-
down the soil of this land with their heavy hopeless feet, from day
as yet, and my heart swelled with joy as I thought of all the
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