Stephen Leacock wrote:
And I can only think of Otto floating down the stream with the easel about his neck. From the little river he will float into the Dnieper, and from the Dnieper into the Bug, and from the Bug he will float down the Volga, and from the Volga into the Caspian Sea and from the Caspian Sea there is no outlet, and Otto will float round and round it for ever.

Is it not dreadful?