I love this approach, I have broken 2 paddles with the paddle float technique, which results in still in the water with no paddle, it only gets worse....LOL
According to my independent research, "A Christmas Carol" was not originally Charles Dickens' work. He obtained it from an American couple named Mathew and Abby Whittier. Dickens simply commercialized it and, to a significant extent, secularized it for public consumption.