We gave him all the regular ones - the time-honoured lies that have done duty up the river with every boating-man for years past - and added seven entirely original ones that we had invented for ourselves, including a really quite likely story, founded, to a certain extent, on an all but true episode, which had actually happened in a modified degree some years ago to friends of ours - a story that a mere child could have believed without injuring itself, much.
Toute la série classique y passa : ces vénérables balivernes qui ont fait carriere aupres de tant de générations de canotiers ; et nous y ajoutâmes sept histoires de notre cru, inventées de toutes pieces, dont une fondée en partie sur un épisode survenu effectivement jadis, a quelques variantes pres, a l’un de nos amis – une histoire qu’un enfant aurait pu gober sans peine.