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Title: Two girls on a barge
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Cotes, V. Cecil
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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while,the sun had risen, and the air was full of thefreshness and exhilaration that breathe when theday is new. It was a dainty sight, as the long parti-coloured barges broke away and spread over the widebasin formed by the wooded banks, and fraught wTiththat gentle luxuriance that only comes after storm.And the E.A., sauntering up, cool, and fresh, andclean, and radiant in his snowTy tie, for once agreedwith me thoroughly and satisfactorily; and wewent amiably together to beg roses from a dewygarden situated on a promontory of the conclusivename of Northampton Amen. * There w7as somebody inquiring for you dowrnat Fenny Lock yesterday when I come through,said a tall brown bargee—* a stranger-man —accosting the roses principally, as we came backto the barge. Our alfresco housekeeping evidentlyinterested him, for the Bargee had carried outinstructions, and had taken the roof off early.It was only the roses, howTever, that he couldntdismiss from the tunnel in his mind entirely satis-
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THERE WAS SOMEBODY INQUIRING FOR YOU DOWN AT FENNY LOCKYESTERDAY 7 go TWO GIRLS ON A BARGE factorily as one of the vagaries of four unemployed—because at six oclock in the morning theyseemed to him superfluous. Somebody inquiringfor us ? We found the stranger-man of surpass-ing interest. What sort of a somebody? Butthe stranger-man was entirely preoccupied withthe Cadets bandaged foot that had just limpedinto the saloon, and beside which we were stand-ing. He were down at Fenny Lock, was theextent of the information the combined efforts ofthe crew could extract from him, even under theinfluence of coffee and gingerbread, during thedisposal of which he told us, Yes, that Elisworthwar about the worst of the steamer tunnels, butnothink by comparison with Crick and they, soochas yeve got to leg. And, Oh! yes, twas apleasant enough life in summer, but in winter Well, he would thank us very kindly, and he hoped wed have good weather for our pleasuring. Twice again that morning we got mess

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