Billy got into a boat, pushed off from the dock, and tried to row it gently down the stream.
But the stream wasn’t deep enough, and the boat kept hitting the bottom, so Billy had to keep pushing off, and occasionally getting out and dragging the boat by a rope and then flopping back in.
After ten minutes, there was nothing merrily about Billy.
He was fuming mad, and he eventually abandoned the boat and walked to shore.
He swore that the next time he got drunk enough to steal a boat, he’d go to a river or a lake.