Question

What funny incident does George narrate about towing?

Answer 1

In the evening when the narrator, Harris, and George were discussing about towlines, George narrated them the following funny incident.  Once, he and three other men were sculling a very heavily laden boat one evening, and a little above Cookham lock they notice a fellow and a girl, walking along the towpath, absorbed in interesting conversation. They were carrying a boat-hook between them, and, attached to the boat hook was a tow-line, which trailed behind them. It meant there must have been a boat attached to it. But what had become of it nobody knew. George played a prank with the couple. George pulled their towline with a hitcher, and tied his own boat with it and sat at the stern to smoke. The couple towed George’s heavy boat up to Marlow. And when the couple realized their mistake, the man became angry but restrained himself; however, the girl was shocked. She did not know where her auntie’s boat was that they were towing.