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  • Crossing the striplingThames at Bab-lock-hithe, Trailing in the cool stream thy fingers wet, 32 As the slow punt swings round.

    - Matthew Arnold
      Poems:  A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.74^6.

  • Iadmit it ismore funto puntthanto be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.

    - Dorothy L(eigh) Sayers
      Gaudy Night, ch.14.

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