New Britain herald., 1928-09-08
MARY EXPERIENCES
 RIDE ON A BOAT
Goes From Hartford to Middle
 town Via Steamer
CONTRIBUTED

Dear Andy.
 The other afternoon a couple of my chums called and says they're going for a boat ride and I'm well come 10 go along providing I pay my own fare. So after I borrowed enough jack from them to pay my fare we goes to Hartford where the boat is parked while waiting for freight and passengers to get on sos it could start for Middletown. where we was headed. The boat was as big as a three tenement house only they wasn't so many windows ill it. I asks one jane if it was an ocean liner but she answer cd that its schedule didn't give it time to cross any oceans. l was glad to hear that as I wasn't dolled up enough to visit foreign countries.
 The river winds in and out like garden hose and sometimes the shore came up close to the boat. A gang of kids was having great time. splashing and swimming in the river. Some of 'em wore bath ing suits but when we looked at some of the others we had to turn our faces the other way SOS nobody could see how we was blushing One of the fellas on the boat was look ing kinda pale and barely smiled when 8 joke was explained to him, and even refused a good cigar which was offered for nothing and then someone asked how would he like a banana split or glass of milk. He looked like he was gonna speak but changed his mind instead and leaned over the railing as ar as he could.
 I didn't get seasick because I'm used to riding on the rear seat Of your secondhand flivver. When .ne of the guys that wore a white coat hollered first call to lunch we took out the sandwiches that We lad brought with us and began eating. Later he hollered again but we had finished eating and so paid no at- tention to him, except to ask if he would get us a glass of water. All he handed us was mean look. They was a young couple that had just been married and intended to goto New York on honeymoon sos they could send postal cards telling when they would be at home to their friends, also relations.
 They was in love and didn't care who knew it as they kept holding hands as though they was handcuff- ed and afraid somebody would sepa- ate them. The bride was all rigged out in the happy rags and was so big she had to bend her bean down. wards through doorway sos not to knock splinters off the woodwork. Once she forgot to bend and her lid was knocked off, disclosing mop of red hair, partly filled with con- fetti. I guess her hubby musta been a golf bug because later when she was about to pass under a doorway he shouted. Fore
 As to looks he Wa. nothing to brag about, even in his checker board suit and straw kelly. He was a little shrimp and If he only wore a uniform could easily pass for bell-hop or a messenger boy. It looked like he forgot to grow when he was kid and didn't remember to later. He was also kinda bald. l wouldn't of noticed this only l ac- cidently bumped against him and ho nff + a1I ylrho gizing to me. His wife musta thought I was trying to flirt with him because she hands me a cold look that would freeze the inside of an Eskimos heart and then puts both arms around him and drags him away.
 He had as much chance of getting away from her as a cat in a dogs kennel. It was comical the way he looked up to her and how she look ed down on him. But maybe being small will probably be to his ad- ments, especially when the rolling pins, dishes and frying pans start flying around. All hell hafta do to play safe is to walk under the kitchen table, or hide in the oven or the ice-boX until the storm is over. By the time We reached MiddletOWn our tickets was used up and We was kinda sorry to leave the boat as we had more fun watching the newly weds than we did the scenery.
 MARY ANN.