You can whistle till you nearly burst your boiler before they will trouble themselves to hurry.

I would have one or two of them run down now and then, if I had my way, just to teach them all a lesson.
The river becomes very lovely from a little above Reading.

The railway rather spoils it near Tilehurst, but from Mapledurham up to Streatley it is glorious.

A little above Mapledurham lock you pass Hardwick House, where Charles I.played bowls.

The neighbourhood of Pangbourne, where the quaint little Swan Inn stands, must be as familiar to the _habitues_ of the Art Exhibitions as it is to its own inhabitants.
My friends' launch cast us loose just below the grotto, and then Harris wanted to make out that it was my turn to pull.