Downstream

‘hold my night gown, shirt,
and slippers’ and borrowed a
napkin from his landlady ‘for
a cap’. He assured Johnson,
‘There’s no danger, don’t be
frighted. I have been
swimming this half hour and
more; and when I was coming
out I dived, to make my head
and all through wet, like a
cold bath; but as I dived, the
napkin fell off and is lost, and
I have that to pay for.’ He
also had trouble with ‘the