_Henley-on-Thames, July 4._
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[Illustration: AQUATICS--A COMFORTABLE RAN-DAN
_Jolly Young Waterman._ "Holloa! Hi! Police! Back water, Jack! We've got
into a nest of swans, and they're a pitchin' into me!"]
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[Illustration: THE SERPENTINE
(Gent thinks he is rowing to the admiration of everybody)
_Small Boy._ "'Old 'ard, guv'n'r! And take me and my traps acrosst--will
yer?"]
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[Illustration: _Fiend in human shape._ "Don't feel well! Try a cigar!"]
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[Illustration: Binks, who is the kindest creature possible, has
undertaken to fasten up the boat and bring along the siphons.
Unfortunately both sculls have gone, and his friends are out of
hearing.]
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[Illustration: MOAN, HEARD ON A RAMSGATE BOAT
"Why didn't we go by rail?"]
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