We clamber down a rope ladder hanging
from the high stern, and then taking a rope in one hand, swing into
the launch at the moment when she can contrive to steam up under us
- bobbing about like an apple thrown into a tub all the while. The
President of the province and his suite tried to come off to a
State luncheon on board on Sunday; but the launch being rather
heavily laden, behaved worse than usual, and some green seas stove
in the President's hat and made him wetter than he had probably
ever been in his life; so after one or two rollers, he turned back;
and indeed he was wise to do so, for I don't see how he could have
got on board. . . . Being fully convinced that the world will not
continue to go round unless I pay it personal attention, I must run
away to my work.'
CHAPTER VI. - 1869-1885.
Edinburgh - Colleagues - FARRAGO VITAE - I. The Family Circle -
Fleeming and his Sons - Highland Life - The Cruise of the Steam
Launch - Summer in Styria - Rustic Manners - II. The Drama -
Private Theatricals - III. Sanitary Associations - The Phonograph -
IV.
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