securing them with a variety of knots that she demonstrated. This was all to be done, of course, hip-deep in the river. Having not been raised by longshoremen, I found the knots impossible, but Less had an even harder time; our leader savaged my Walloon ruthlessly, as if seeking redress for the failures of New Sweden, and more than once, Less slipped into the currents of the American and had to pull himself to shore.
