Union 12 June 1891 get in. It is a very difficult thing to get into a boat, may almost impossible unless you know how. You must swim up to the side, and keeping your legs will not give a vigorous kick with both legs and at the same time use the arms so as to raise yourself up the side with the arms stiff and the hips agains the gunwale. Then by throwing one leg over the side it is easy to get in. I knew nothing of this, and when I jumped the side my legs were hooked under the boat. Mr. Bynum shouted to me keep your legs out and jump up from the water and then he and Duly both laughed. The laughing made me very happy for all the while I was struggling to get aloof go als to give myself cut in two by a hungry and voracious duck. So I let go and swam out and had another try at the boat, but again my legs went under. St. & I were killing themselves with laughing, but I am not a fuss rate prisoner and I was getting tired, so clenching my teeth I determined to get into the boat somehow and I succeeded after a desperate struggle in the way my leg over the side of the boat and I wormed myself in with the loss of some integument. The signs were no doubt ludicrous, but as I laughed with St. & J. but they should have helped me to form a pronoun we