#tubwreck brook

[1937book]

Trout Brook

Apparently, this used to be known as Tubwreck Brook, because one spring Captain James Tisdale attempted to sail down the stream in a tub. Yeah, I don't know why, either; the book doesn't really explain further. All I know is that the tub eventually capsized--as one might expect--and Tisdale's friends never let him forget his stupidity--as one might also expect. I can only assume the guy was drunk. At any rate, his friends threw a big party to celebrate his rescue from the wreck, all tongue-in-cheek, and apparently "an original poem telling this story was repeated for many years around Dover fireplaces." That is some dedicated ridicule.