“Oh yes, of course!”
She should have thought of that. So she duly made up for her lack of initiative in the case of the paddle, with an excess of enthusiasm in the use of the paddle. They needed to swing to the right to approach the bank correctly, so she concentrated her paddling efforts on the other side, up to the point where a correction was necessary, once they had swung too far off course. Immediately, she brought the paddle out of the water and threw it across the canoe, driving it back into the water on the other side. It did not hit the water though, because that is exactly where Mister Corby’s head was.
As he hauled himself out of the river, apparently none the worse for his knock on the head, if one disregards a certain loss of levity that such an occurrence is likely to occas
