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From the garden-plots one could look, dry-shod, down upon the Thames, along which the pretty town of Hampton stretches, and in whose lively current great numbers of house-boats tug at their moorings.

She simulated an interest in the rowing about which she knew nothing at all visited the house-boats of such of her friends as had come down for the regatta, and was, in Willy Forrest's words, as "skittish as a two-year-old that had slipped its halter." Forrest had been to and fro from the stable near Winchester on several occasions.

Our First Few Days in the City The Pasig River, With Its Swarm of House-boats Through Manila into the Walled City Our First Meal A Walk and a Drive in Manila The Admirable Policemen We Superintend the Preparation of Quarters for Additional Teachers That Artful Radcliffe Girl. Our guide from the Educational Department appeared about eleven o'clock the next day, which happened to be Sunday.

But all the same he spoke in a low voice that could only be heard by our companion who held the lines. "There, never mind all that bother," cried Barkins. "I say, how would you like to live in one of those house-boats?" "I call it pretty good cheek of the pigtailed humbugs to set up house-boats," cried Smith. "They imitate us in everything."

The river was literally alive with these small craft, going up and down, gathering their parties together and paying friendly little visits to the neighbouring house-boats, while gay parasols, striped shirt-waists, white flannels, sailor hats, house-boat flags, and gay coloured boat cushions, made the river flash in the sunshine like an electric lighted rainbow.

"Shanty boats do not look exactly like house-boats," went on Madge speculatively. "I should say not," returned Phil. "There is considerable difference." "But they might be made to look more like them. Don't you believe so?" Phil nodded. "They are awfully dirty," was dainty Lillian's sole comment. "Soap and water, child, is a sure cure for dirt," replied Madge, still in a brown study.

The trader's boat, of an elder and more authentic tradition, sometimes shouldered the house-boats away from a village landing, but it, too, was a peaceful home, where the family life visibly went hand-in-hand with commerce.

We had not intended to remain nearly so long in Srinagar, but the continuity of the chain of entertainments proved too firm to break, and dances and dinners, bridge and golf, kept us bound from day to day, until the fête at the Residency on the 15th practically brought the Srinagar season to a close, and broke up the line of house-boats that had been moored along both banks of the river.

The trader's boat, of an elder and more authentic tradition, sometimes shouldered the house-boats away from a village landing, but it, too, was a peaceful home, where the family life visibly went hand-in-hand with commerce.

As The Aloha rode gently to her buoy among the crafts in the harbour, St. George longed to proclaim in the megaphone's monstrous parody upon capital letters: "Cat-boats and house-boats and yawls, look here. You're bound to observe that this is my steam yacht. I own her do you see? She belongs to me, St. George, who never before owned so much as a piece of rope."