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steamer the woman he has wronged by some bad scheme ;
her face makes him faint and fall into the water. But
Oxford getting fortunately shorter they could not quite
recover the lost yard, and Cambridge consequently wins
a hard-fought contest by two inches and a half; at which
the people who had backed them laugh, and Bow gets his
commission in the guards. Our authoress, who reels off
yards and yards of fine romance, is far too serious to
make the pun to her so obvious about his being still
a Beau, undér the impression that we all pronounce the
worthy who occupies the foremost thwart as if he were
archer’s joy or a division whiffy in London East. The
space at my disposal is getting, alas! too small, and
pretty Rosalys (the girl I saw the race with) must be
slurred over. Conclude. A thousand kind words and a
word over to those who won and those who gamely
stuck to it though they were beaten. (Next time better
luck to it !)?
1 As a direct result of these remarks the boat-race was indeed won by us
the very next year but three or four.