On another, the boatman — also basking in the sun — leisurely twists some yarn into rope.
Her grandfather Frank was a boatman while Belinda's father, Terence, was a steelworker and a hospital porter.
Even though the water boatman does its "singing" from the bottom of rivers to attract mates, humans walking along the riverbank can clearly hear it.
A medieval innkeeper, for example, often offered the only lodging in town; a boatman could cross only with the king's writ.
