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Boats and Bridges on a Canal Run
A first person narrator describes a canal journey with low bridges forcing passengers to lie flat as boats pass. A Dutchman loses his breeches and pipe, mates mock and laugh, and chaos ensues with sleeping births and a capsize-like bed collapse. A later tale mentions Rev Mr Peabody praying for rain with a flourish about tigers raining.
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Smisee Vancous
CANAL
New-York
Tim
Albany
Troy
Joe Rice
Whitehall
Champlain Lake
Poe
Tassoon