Midweek Meditation: "about in boats --"

From:  Kenneth Grahame's THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS...

      "'about in boats -- or with boats.  In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter.  Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it.  Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you don't; whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not.'"

THUS SPOKE MR WATER RAT TO MR MOLE...

     He continued, "'Look here!  If you've really nothing else on hand this morning, suppose we drop down the river together, and have a long day of it?'"