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Title: Make your game, or, The adventures of the stout gentleman, the slim gentleman, and the man with the iron chest : a narrative of the Rhine and thereabouts
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Sala, George Augustus, 1828-1895
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Publisher: London : Ward and Lock
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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-brooms is slack.)Next, as to the bridges. You know those uncomfort-able little pontine arrangements in the Liverpooldocks, which suddenly swing away from you as youare about to set foot on them to allow the huge Aus-tralian clippers and Yankee emigrant ships to pass,and keep you, sometimes, an hour and a half fromyour dinner, and staring savagely at unattainable banksof the basin opposite. They manage these things muchbetter in Holland. Barges, and galliots with masts ofconsiderable altitude, are passing up and down themultitudinous canals at every hour in the day, and thename of the bridges is legion. By a very simple andadmirably-carried out arrangement, these vessels passthrough with the smallest amount of inconvenience tothe pedestrian public. The bridges are divided in themiddle, and when a tall-masted vessel is at hand thetwo halves are hoisted by very unornate apparatus ofropes and pullies to a vertical position on either sideof the canal. So soon as the vessel has passed, the
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MAKE TOUR GAME. 49 halves of the bridge are lowered again to their originalposition, join, and form a flat surface. A single police-man at either end suffices to work the machinery ; hutit is curious to see the business-like impatience withwhich the public at both extremities await the joiningof the bridge. AVhen the half, in its descent, is assteep as a Montague Russe, there are already swarmsof adventurous men and lads scrambling up it; nay,it is at an angle of a good many degrees when catsand carts are seen to adventure upon its planks. Toget over the bridges seems to be the only thing whichthe Rotterdammers deem worth being in a hurry for.Of the Dutch soldiers, I may say that they are verystout (not so stout as art thou, my friend) and verypeaceahle-looking, and that the subaltern officers are,for the most part, martyrs to an insane ambition totighten their girths, so as to produce wasp-waists. Aswell might an elephant attempt to wear stays! And,lastly, people must not say that Ro

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