  She was the finest vessel we had in the fleet. She was built out of a toy lifeboat, with a lead keel fastened on, and she had paper sails and a rudder. The “New Corinthian” sailed in the nicest way, but we were too proud of her, after we had rigged her, to let her go down the big river, so we sailed her on a small pond called Mystery Bay; we called it that name because it looked so terribly deep, but was really only about three feet deep. The “New Corinthian” did not have any adventurous voyages, but she had as good a time as she could have, sailing round and round Mystery Bay. But it must have been pretty exciting on her when the tadpoles tried to board her. But what we liked best was seeing the vessels of our fleet tearing NOTICE TO MARINERS.Since the above was written, the owners have put a buoy in mid-stream, between the Blackwall Hitch and Bully Bowline currents, and mariners will keep a south-easterly course, leaving the buoy nine fathoms and a-half on the starboard. |
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