Excerpt from Houseboating on a Colonial Waterway And thus it was that the houseboat Gad about left her moorings in the outskirts of old Norfolk, and went spluttering down the Elizabeth to find Hammon Roads and to start upon her cruise up the historic James River. But to tell the story we must begin before that summer morning. It was this way. We were three: the daughter-wife (who hap pened to see the magazine article that led to it all), her mother, and her husband. The head of the family, true to the spirit of the age, ...
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Excerpt from Houseboating on a Colonial Waterway And thus it was that the houseboat Gad about left her moorings in the outskirts of old Norfolk, and went spluttering down the Elizabeth to find Hammon Roads and to start upon her cruise up the historic James River. But to tell the story we must begin before that summer morning. It was this way. We were three: the daughter-wife (who hap pened to see the magazine article that led to it all), her mother, and her husband. The head of the family, true to the spirit of the age, had achieved a nervous breakdown and was under instructions from his physician to betake himself upon a long, a very long, va cation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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