98 EASY-CHAIR MEMORIES 



memorable day ! I was, of course, invited to 

 witness the grand event. I went down to my 

 son's home the day before. I arrived on a 

 gloomy, cold, disagreeable afternoon in a con- 

 stant drizzle of rain. Everything looked dreary 

 and disconsolate. There I found my son, his 

 two sons, and a nephew all three my grand- 

 sons all working away to complete this pre- 

 cious boat. A trolly was in waiting on which 

 she was to be mounted next morning. She had 

 been got out of the shed heaven knows how 

 and was there in the open, but under an awning. 

 To accomplish the work of getting the boat on 

 the trolly they had to erect four big eight-inch 

 square posts twelve feet high, the two form- 

 ing the sides ten feet apart, and these were in 

 width about seven feet apart. Between these 

 posts the boat was fixed on blocks. Overhead 

 were cross-trees for suspending that wonderful 

 bit of engineering ingenuity, differential, or what 

 engineers call chain-blocks, by the use of which 

 one man can easily lift a ton weight. Over and 

 above these posts was a framework, over which 

 the green tarpauling was spread. It was under 

 this tarpauling, the rain dripping down the sides 

 and making pools of mud and sludge all round 



