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Updated: June 25, 2025
All that wild talk about 'Bill Hammersley' and 'Simpledoria' and spring-boards in Scotland and " "And an eleven-foot jump," I suggested. "Why, there's no more a 'Bill Hammersley," she cried, with a gesture of excited emphasis, "than there is a 'Simpledoria'!" "So it appears," I agreed.
Any desired depth of water was available and plainly marked, from the fenced-off shallows where the smallest children splashed to the forty feet of liquid crystal which received the diver who cared to try his skill from one of the many spring-boards, flying rings, and catapults which rose high into the air a short distance away from the entrance.
There were fourteen of them, curled up in large cages standing against the walls. The place was lit by a skylight and warmed by a stove. The floor, like a stage, was fitted up with miniature acrobatic paraphernalia and properties. There were little five-barred gates, and trapezes, and tight-ropes, and spring-boards, and a trestle-table, all the metal work gleaming like silver.
Training and wages and social approbation are very elastic spring-boards, and the whole course of history has seen these offered bounteously to one sex and as sedulously withheld from the other.
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