text:  We ordered a cold dinner to be put into baskets with a moderate accompaniment of bottles and glasses--enquired if a boat was to be had to take us up the Wye--were recommended to a certain barge-master of the name of Williams; and in a very short space of time were safely stowed in a beautiful clipper thirty feet long with only nine inches draught of water with a gorgeous morning over our heads luxurious cushions on the seats a tug in the shape of a most strong active fellow pulling us by the towing-path and seated at the helm the most civil the most polite the most communicative and the most talkative man that it ever was our fortune to meet