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P.O. boats are not lighted with the disgustful particularity of Atlantic liners. PIANO BOATS ARE NOT LIGHTED WITH THE DISGUSTFUL PARTICULARITY OF ATLANTIC LINERS
out that gate business, we were safe the minute we were well under the walls.” But this did not prevent his men from cheering him furiously whenever they saw him, or the mess from giving him a dinner on the eve of his departure to England. (A year’s leave was among the things he had “snaffled out of the campaign,” to use his own words.) The doctor, who had taken quite as much as was good for him, quoted poetry about “a good blade carving the casques of men,” and so on, and everybody told Cottar that he was an excellent person; but when he rose to make his maiden speech they shouted so that he was understood to say, “It isn’t any use tryin’ to speak with you chaps rottin’ me like this. Let’s have some pool.” It is not unpleasant to spend eight-and-twenty days in an easy-going steamer on warm waters, in the company of a woman who lets you see that you are head and shoulders superior to the rest of the world, even though that woman may be, and most often is, ten counted years your senior.  SECTION THREE OF THE BRUSHWOOD BOY BY ROGYARD KIPLING THIS LIEBREVOX RECORDING IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN RECORDING BY LEOMELIE IT IS NOT UNPLEASANT TO SPEND EIGHT AND TWENTY DAYS IN AN EASY GOING STEAMER ON WARM WATERS IN THE COMPANY OF A WOMAN WHO LETS YOU SEE THAT YOU'RE HEAD AND SHOULDERS SUPERIOR TO THE REST OF THE WORLD EVEN THOUGH THAT WOMAN MAY BE AND OFTEN IS TEN COUNTED YEARS YOUR SENIOR
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