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Yorkshire, England

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Hull, Yorkshire, England

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POETRY

... other's features, Till we washed In the Nile. From there, by boat, to Arronaa We came; and every night Made fast, for the boatmen would not steam, Excepting in daylight. Chorus. We are ranrching now upon Khartoum, To meet the old Mahdl, And when we do ...

REVIEWS

... green, in pursuit of their favourite games; our lanes will teem with bicycles, and the rivers will be alive with youthful boatmen. Oppor- tunely with this re-awakened activity in healthful out-door amusements, comes the first part of Cassell's Book of ...

The Church

... to put a stop to Sunday traffic on rivers and canals through- out the kingdom~l. He menltion.led that a petition from 300 boatmen had produced a powverful effect in the House of Lords; that Lord Nermauhy had promnised the appoir.t- Ment of a Couomitteo ...

VARIETIES

... English miles. Prizes were offered for siz-oar and four. oar boats; for the six-oars two boats entered, mannied by the hardy boatmen of the coast, and the race was well i contested, but was won easily by the boat of Don y Alejandro Rodrignez, the well-known ...

SCRAPS, ANCIENT AND MODERN

... pound cake; the most suitable for carpenters, plane cake; the - most relisbedhby loafers, sponge cake; the most palatable-to boatmen, current cake ; the most acceptable to hangmen, drop cake ; the best for farmers, seed cake; the kind in- dulged in by surgeons ...

POETRY

... POETRY. -_ t THE BOATMEN'S SONG. I (Dedicated to Ie iaMll Clubs, by threir cebdie ...

LITERARY EXTRACTS

... demoralized in proportion as they aie brought in contact with >,foreigners. Thus the servants in the large towns e and the Nile boatmen, are among the most dis- s honest classes in the population. An instance of the moral code prevalent am ong the latter camle ...

THE POET'S CORNER

... stray O'er.Clo'1delli's wa'Ve with f(,nd delay; Now on the rising gale swell high And now in faitijiar niurmitrs die, The boatmen on Nilt's gentle sireIil Tuhalgli~tens in lte pale moon's-beams, 'Suspend their dasbing oars to hear *The holy anthem, lotd ...

Literature

... wron of ilmoe, a a fmilymanto risk his life in alifboa. -- - .1 avemanaged better; I have had sometimes two, three, or four boatmen up to my house ; and we have fought their brttles over again ; I questioning and cross-questioning. getting particularefrom ...

THE DROWNING OF THIRTEEN PERSONS AT WORTHING

... hier several ti mes. The boat was manned by Edwin Blarn and Jacob Tester, two steady and believed to be careful and skilful boatmen, The party left the beach, nearly opposite Augusta-house, about twenty minutes after two o'clock, and were pat on board by ...

Our Scrap Book

... put your horse into a boat without beating him. The simple mode was to fasten a rope to one of the fore legs, and the two boatmen dragging at it, till it was lifted up in the attitude of King Charles's steed at Charing Cross, and until it became an im ...

Literature

... of the rope by both hands-it was the clutch Of death; Bessy had her arms round her father's neck; both were le3seless. The boatmen carried them up to the cottage, and the nUal methods of recovery were resorted to with success. Still we baIl to lament the ...