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id: 21549
title: Jacob Faithful
author: Marryat, Frederick
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  "This is old Tom, sir," said I to the Dominie, who stared with "No, I never did," said the Dominie, observing old Tom''s eyes directed took the other oar, and the Dominie, shaking hands with old Tom, said, "Well, you''ve guessed right this time," replied old Tom; "we shall lie "My father means _ledger_demain, I suppose," replied young Tom. This repartee from a quarter so little expected sent off the head clerk "Haul up the boat, Jacob, quick," said Tom, as his father went into the "Come, Jacob, a drop will do you good," said old Tom, filling me one of "Well but, father, I don''t like to see Jacob drunk," replied young Tom. "Jacob," said old Tom, "I likes your pride after all, ''cause why, I "Look out for Jacob, Tom," cried the old man, as the head of the "From your mother, Jacob!" said old Tom.


id: 8682
title: The Naturalist on the Thames
author: Cornish, C. J. (Charles John)
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  Thames chub, butterflies, eel-traps, fountains and springs, river shells river, what may we not expect in the upper waters of the silver Thames?[1] shells like small ammonites, fresh-water snail shells of all sizes, river the waters, the birds and fish and insects and flowers of the best of run below water, live on dry land, or fly in the air, and many are so Year''s Day. The big fish had wriggled up into the very shallowest water, The return of the birds, and especially of wild fowl, to the London river less than half a mile, on some ornamental water near the river, an even Water-cress growing is an increasing business in the Thames Valley, where or two of shallow water, and the fish at once left the river and crowded Thames to-day, but many more like those of a river in Borneo.


id: 40020
title: The Thames
author: Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)
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  any one of his home rivers could swallow the Thames and never know it, the ranks as high among poets as among kings; in it he speaks of the Thames first is Cliveden, standing high above the woods and facing down the river interesting association it takes high rank among river mansions. beauty of the river scenery is shown by her revisiting the place when she grand old house, Lady Place, also on the site of an abbey. to be the oldest things on the river, though some of the bridges might run From the River Thames you see through my arch up a walk of the the river, hills, woods, and boats, are forming a moving picture in association with the river, by far the noblest name that Thames can boast and wide over the rich, well-watered land, down to the river''s banks with


id: 46818
title: Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial
author: Various
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  Oldest Bridge--Old Father Thames--Disused Weir-pools--Bablock Oldest Bridge--Old Father Thames--Disused Weir-pools--Bablock the last half-century, the angling in the River Thames at the present River, from Medley Weir to Folly Bridge--The Houses of the River, from Medley Weir to Folly Bridge--The Houses of the century, there was already, besides the old foundation of St. Frideswide, at that time a house of Austin canons, the great monastic on the Oxford bank an old church with a very long nave and tall tower, Abney House, below the bridge, is one of those places by the river Buildings--Windsor Park--The Long Walk--The Albert Bridge--Datchet Buildings--Windsor Park--The Long Walk--The Albert Bridge--Datchet Thames and the little stream now called the Abbey River, or Bourne. of the River Thames, farewell to all natural beauty; its waters have he had left a little higher up the Thames--houses of quiet old sailors, lived, in a house built out of the stones of old London Bridge.


id: 54326
title: The Thames: A Sketch-Book
author: Sharpley, R. (Reginald)
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  A SKETCH-BOOK BY LIST OF SKETCHES 1 HENLEY-ON-THAMES (TITLE PAGE) 2 STRAND-ON-THE-GREEN. 3 KEY BRIDGE. 4 FERRY ROAD. 5 KINGSTON-"YE OLDE CURIOSITY SHOPPE". 8 WALTON BRIDGE. 9 BELOW STAINES BRIDGE. 10 WINDSOR CASTLE AND BRIDGE. 13 "YE OLDE BELL" INN. 15 HOUSE-BOATS AT HENLEY. 16 SONNING FROM THE BRIDGE. 21 SHILLINGFORD BRIDGE. 23 ABINGDON BRIDGE. [Illustration: HENLEY-ON-THAMES (TITLE PAGE)] [Illustration: STRAND-ON-THE-GREEN.] [Illustration: KEY BRIDGE.] [Illustration: FERRY ROAD. [Illustration: KINGSTON-"YE OLDE CURIOSITY SHOPPE".] [Illustration: HAMPTON COURT.] [Illustration: SUNBURY.] [Illustration: WALTON BRIDGE.] [Illustration: BELOW STAINES BRIDGE.] [Illustration: WINDSOR CASTLE AND BRIDGE.] [Illustration: IN BRAY VILLAGE.] [Illustration: IN WEST STREET. [Illustration: "YE OLDE BELL" INN. [Illustration: HURLEY. THE OLD BARN AND DOVECOT.] THE OLD BARN AND DOVECOT.] [Illustration: HOUSE-BOATS AT HENLEY.] [Illustration: SONNING FROM THE BRIDGE.] [Illustration: MAPLEDURHAM MILL.] [Illustration: GORING. THE BRIDGE.] THE BRIDGE.] [Illustration: STREATLEY MILL.] [Illustration: WALLINGFORD.] [Illustration: SHILLINGFORD BRIDGE.] [Illustration: DORCHESTER ABBEY. [Illustration: ABINGDON BRIDGE.] [Illustration: AT IFFLEY.]


