On the Voyage Out.

Otago Witness, Issue 2523, 23 July 1902, Page 77

On the Voyage Out.

A volunteer who has recently returned , from the front sends this little sketch to j show how Tommy is now taught to swim ! when going out on board ship to see foreign service. ( A big bath is made out of a tarpaulin and fclung'i'p as shown. The ship's pumps and a big hose soon fill th© bath with sea water,

and in this the men bathe and learn to swim, big lumps of cork, in the latter cases, being ueed in the earlier lessons to support their chests. The " instructor," it will be noticed, enjoys his bath and a pipe at the same time, '* lam usußtus Hare." In Mr Augustus Hare's "Story of My Life" he gives an amusing experience which occurred during one of his lectures in Rome. His audience were gathered round him near the Forum, when he noticed that a stranger who had attached himself to the party was showing unmistakable signs of anger, which increased with every word 1 Mr Hare epoke. At length the interloper could keep silent no longer. "All that this person has been telling you about the Palace of the Caesar-3," ho informed tho party in a loud voice, "he has had the effrontery to relate to you as if it were his own. You will be astonished, ladies and gentlemen, to hear that it is tak&n, word for word, without the slightest acknowledgment, from Mr Hare's ' Walks in Rome' !" Great was the stranger's surprise when j the accused replied smilingly: 1 "Oh, lam so nruch obliged to you I ■ did not know there was anyone in the world who would defend my interests so kiindly. I am Augustus Hare !"