He was a young keeper, as luck would have it, and new to the business; and when he got in, he couldn't find them, and he wandered about, trying to get to them, and then he got lost. They caught sight of him, every now and then, rushing about the other side of the hedge, and he would see them, and rush to get to them, and they would wait there for about five minutes, and then he would reappear again in exactly the same spot, and ask them where they had been.

They had to wait till one of the old keepers came back from his dinner before they got out.

Harris said he thought it was a very fine maze, so far as he was a judge; and we agreed that we would try to get George to go into it, on our way back.

CHAPTER VII

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The river in its Sunday garb (река в воскресном наряде). — Dress on the river (одежда на реке = для прогулок по реке; dress — платье; одежда). — A chance for the men (удобный случай для мужчин). — Absence of taste in Harris (отсутствие вкуса у Гарриса). — George's blazer (спортивный приталенный пиджак Джорджа). — A day with the fashion-plate young lady (день с модной барышней; fashion-plate — цветная иллюстрация самых модных образцов одежды; модница, модник; fashion — мода, стиль). — Mrs. Thomas's tomb (могила миссис Томас). — The man who loves not graves and coffins and skulls (человек, который не любит могилы, гробы и черепа). — Harris mad (Гаррис в бешенстве). — His views on George and Banks and lemonade (его взгляды на Джорджа, банки и лимонад; view — вид; точка зрения, мнение). — He performs tricks (он исполняет акробатические номера; trick — обман, уловка; трюк, фокус).

The river in its Sunday garb. — Dress on the river. — A chance for the men. — Absence of taste in Harris. — George's blazer. — A day with the fashion-plate young lady. — Mrs. Thomas's tomb. — The man who loves not graves and coffins and skulls. — Harris mad. — His views on George and Banks and lemonade. — He performs tricks.

IT was while passing through Moulsey Lock that Harris told me about his maze experience (как раз когда мы проходили Маулсейский шлюз, Гаррис рассказывал мне о своем приключении в лабиринте; experience — опыт; случай, переживание; lock — замок, затвор; шлюз). It took us some time to pass through, as we were the only boat, and it is a big lock (прохождение через шлюз заняло у нас некоторое время, поскольку мы были единственной лодкой, а это большой шлюз; to take time). I don't think I ever remember to have seen Moulsey Lock, before, with only one boat in it (не помню, чтобы я когда-либо прежде видел Маулсейский шлюз с единственной лодкой в нем). It is, I suppose, Boulter's not even excepted, the busiest lock on the river (это, полагаю, и даже Боултерский шлюз не исключение, самый оживленный шлюз на реке; Boulter's Lock — Боултерз-Лок /шлюз на Темзе близ Мейденхеда. В конце 19 — начале 20 вв. был фешенебельным местом для лодочных прогулок/).

absence ['aebsns] tomb [tu:m]

IT was while passing through Moulsey Lock that Harris told me about his maze experience. It took us some time to pass through, as we were the only boat, and it is a big lock. I don't think I ever remember to have seen Moulsey Lock, before, with only one boat in it. It is, I suppose, Boulter's not even excepted, the busiest lock on the river.