I was apprehensive that the enemy's cavalry on the river above might come down the towpath and intercept us.
The same party then went on up the towpath and captured a canal boat and some mules; while I halted a short time to close up the command.
Tony and I and the coal-cart will await you on this spot, at the corner of the towpath on Sunday evening at nine o'clock.
The whole College will be on the towpath to-night.
He swam part of the time and ran and barked on the towpath the other part.
It was in the orchard sloping down the hill that drops to the towpath of the canal.
They had come to the towpath of the canal near by where it flows into the lock at Lonesome Ford when the clouds that had been threatening all day heaped up to thunder and broke above them with a sudden deluge of rain.
Sharply from the towpathwhere they walked, the ground rose in high banks of apple orchard, through the trees of which, on the top of the hill, could just be seen the half-timbered gables of an old farmhouse.
As there is but one towpath along a canal, it is necessary when two boats meet, or when one passes the other, for the tow-line of one to go under or over the tow-line of the second boat.
Of course getting out and strolling along the towpath was out of the question for the voyagers, and they found amusements enough on board the houseboat.
The man who had stopped Hank was a rough-looking character, but manytowpath men were that, and little was thought of it at the time.
Walking about on the upper deck and looking down the towpath toward Hank, who was bringing the mules from their sylvan stable to feed them, Neale heard Ruth call: "How's the weather up there?
I used to have to take Tess and Dot down to the towpath to let them watch them often enough when we first came here," said Ruth, with a laugh.
On either side of the towpath were farms and gardens, with a house set here and there amid the green fields or orchards.
The horn blew again, long, melodious; the negro on the towpath said, "Get up!
The negro and the mule on the towpath were now but a bit of dusk in motion, and now were lit and, so to speak, powdered with gold-dust.
The negro on the towpath was singing and his rich voice floated across-- "For everywhere I went ter pray, I met all hell right on my way.
Now the rope between boat and towpath showed an arm-thick golden serpent, and now it did not show at all.
At intervals through the night other specters appeared over there on the towpath and their advent invariably was heralded by the same hair-raising shouts.
The towpath follows the northern bank of the river and the boats hug the shore closely, but we careened far out into the stream.
She rushed across the towpath to chat with the lockmaster's wife and daughters while Mr. Carter towed "Sometub" through the lock and found a suitable place to tie up on the berm bank of the short level.
He had walked every inch of the towpath from Cumberland to Washington every hour of the day and night and he declared that he could pace those 184 miles with his eyes blindfolded.
The wind wrenched big sycamores from their roots and they crashed across the miry towpath like jackstraws thrown by an angry giant.
So sudden was the tempest that we were obliged to tie to the towpath bank to prevent the furious gales of wind from capsizing the boat.
There was but one thing to do, and I climbed out on the narrow shelf of a towpath and took the end of the line while my better, and on this occasion, less nervous half, caught up the paddle and steered.
Scrambling out on the towpath I waded through the mud to inquire of the locktender for a place to tie up.
A farmer rode down the towpathand invited us to go to his house for the night.
At the end of the canyon we moored to the towpath bank for a time, but with darkness approaching and the rain continuing unabated, we resolved to resume the voyage.
The towpathin the tunnel is intended only for mules.
In many places are mountain springs whose icy waters trickle down through the old brick walls and transform the towpath into soft mire that is knee deep.
On the far towpath the idle people streamed blissfully along, marvelling at the gratuitous exertions of the oarsmen.
Men passed singing along the towpath on the outer side; the song floated over the water, in sentimental tones of exquisite melancholy.
He looked quickly up the river and down the river and at Hammerton Terrace and at the oil-mills below and at the empty towpath on the opposite bank, all silent, all still.
The towpath critic's remarks are trite (Off Ayling's Yard in a stiffish breeze), Yet I study religiously morn and night Whole columns consisting of words like these.
There was now a very faint glimmering of daylight, and the two German sentries stationed on the towpathapproached a little nearer to look on at our strange manoeuvres.
Nor did he betray surprise when Mr. Mortimer, after a glance down the towpath towards the iron bridge and the tram-lights passing there, walked off and left him to browse.
It stood, in fact, just beyond the bridge, with a high brick wall that turned off the street at right angles and overhung the towpath of the canal.
His next business was to fetch a horse from the stables at the Canal End and tow the boat back to her quarters; and having taken another glance around, he set off and up the towpath at a pretty brisk pace.
As Tilda hobbled towards him he hoisted the full bucket on his shoulders, staggered across the towpath with it, and shot its contents into a manhole under the brick wall.
Here we are,' said Dick, for the scouts intended to follow the towpath into Newminster: it would save them a mile and a half of dusty high-road.
She went to the towpathonce more to unstrap the tin bucket from the horse's head, and set him to his task again.
His strong will and resolute purpose to make the most of himself not only enabled him to obtain an education, but raised him from the towpath to the presidential chair.
And so, out of his sea fever and towpath experience was born the resolution that made the turning point in his career.
Hearing that an eight was to go out on a certain day, he threatened to expel anyone who should take part in the expedition, and then went for a walk along the towpath to waylay them.
When they reached the Bumstead Lock this afternoon there was a chance for the girl to leave the mules grazing beside the towpath while the water rose slowly in the basin, and she could board the boat and talk with Cap'n Bill.
The mules they had seen waiting to be shod ambled ahead at a pace warranted to bring them to thetowpath in time.
The crowd from the circus field lined up along the other bank; but the towpath was deserted where the Nancy Hanks lay.
The towpath was the only walk that was not a mass of mud or a sop of water.
Along this towpath Jeremiah walked with his hands behind his back, brooding over his difficulties, seeking a solution that escaped him.
The towpath is precisely where the greatest danger lay.
The canal and the river ran side by side, with a towpath along the former; but the high-road had deserted the valley and ran on the top of the hill.
Yes, but he may have left the towpath in time, and then, instead of returning home, have gone about helping the poor creatures who have been washed out of their houses, and some of them have not had time to get into their clothes.
Then along the towpath he continued at accelerated speed, and disappeared in the darkness in the direction of the locks.
The mules took fright, got into a regular mixup, broke the harness, and went up the towpath at a two-forty gait.
Near Oneida some one said that I had better take to the towpath on the canal to save distance and to avoid going over the hill.
The regulation towpath exists from this point downwards, but for miles to come it is, like the boundaries of counties, a generally invisible line.
The canal from Birmingham reached Oxford in 1790, and shortly afterwards the locks and towpath were put into their present shape.
The old men on the river have been heard to say that this branch from Clasper's to Kennington used to be the main stream for barges, and it is quite possible, for the Long Bridges and new towpath only date from the end of last century.
Bierstadt] When James reached the age of fifteen, he began driving mules on the towpath of a canal running from Cleveland to Portsmouth.
The towpathwas a hard "school," but had many good lessons for a boy wise enough to keep out of mischief.
Forbes was not a rowing man, and the probable submerging of the towpath was not news that affected him one way or the other.
Very wet night, sir; they say the towpath will be under water in another day or so.
XVI Those who go to Strorley, and cross the bridge to the other side of the river, have only to follow the towpath for a little to come to The Willows.
Look--there's only the towpath between the river and the garden.
