I ups with her in my arms--she bein' a light weight and a slender figure--and makes for the canal as fast as I could.

When I got there, I lays her on the bank and goes for the water.

But what with factories, and pollutions, and high civilizations of one sort and another, English canal water ain't fit to sprinkle on a lady, much less for her to drink.

Just then, as luck would have it, a barge came along and took her aboard, and--" "To such a thing," said Wickens's boy stubbornly, emboldened by witnessing the effrontery of one apparently of his own class.

"I sor you two standin' together, and her a kissin' of you.