Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — A Fair Canoeist [ARTICLE]

A Fair Canoeist

A girl in a canoe is often of a pleasant afternoon one of the features of the Hudson, between upper New York and Yonkers, says a correspondent. The canoe is what woodmen would call a decked “bucktail,” being 26 inches wide by 10. - feet long, decked over at both ends and weighing probably not over twenty pounds. This cockle shell is one of the prettiest things afloat, withits thin sides of polished cedar and its bright-eyed oceup.mt seated on a scarlet cushion on its bottom. She. has scarlet ribbons on her sailor hatand a scarlet sash fastened about the waist of her dark-blue serge boating gown. A heavy silk skirt of dark blue and white stripes tops this, and as she wields the long double p iddle she skims the surface of the dimpling river with the lightness and birdlike motion that only a canoeist knows. She is an expert sailor lass, and her boat dips and ducks with all possible grace to steamer swells.