Floaters
As he watched, more floaters boarded, hauling themselves like lizards over the sides.
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While the Thames barge lured floaters downriver in its bloody wake, a steam barge, hauling six lads and a dozen barrels of horse blood, did the same on the Regent’s Canal. At 14-feet wide and 70 long, the narrowboat was the maximum length that would fit in the Regent’s locks. Ornately painted blue and white with yellow trim, the canal boat was commonly used for hauling goods to and from the canal’s many wharves, timber yards, sawmills, coal yards, furniture factories, gutta percha works and coach manufactories. Sometimes it carried casks of wine. Tonight, the claret, still warm from the knacker’s yard,
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