river-keeper

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When, seeking flowers, we borrowed his horse, the river-keeper was vexed;

More Translations from the Chinese Arthur Waley 1927
At Longstock, a mile upstream from Stockbridge, you turn down a little street called The Bunny’ to the river, where a dozen eel-traps of willow basketwork, looking like beehives, are strung across the river from a wooden plank bridge beside the river-keeper’s thatched, conical-roofed bothy.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
At Longstock, a mile upstream from Stockbridge, you turn down a little street called The Bunny’ to the river, where a dozen eel-traps of willow basketwork, looking like beehives, are strung across the river from a wooden plank bridge beside the river-keeper’s thatched, conical-roofed bothy.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009