After that, having acquired a taste for the water, I did a good deal of rafting in various suburban brickfields - an exercise providing more interest and excitement than might be imagined, especially when you are in the middle of the pond and the proprietor of the materials of which the raft is constructed suddenly appears on the bank, with a big stick in his hand.
Apres quoi, je pris gout a la navigation et fis pas mal de radeau dans les carrieres inondées de la banlieue – exercice qui n’offre d’intéret que lorsque vous etes au milieu de l’étang et que le propriétaire des matériaux dont est construit le radeau surgit soudain sur la rive, un gros bâton a la main.