the eye. For this reason the Princetonians were indefatigable in their conversation
with the niggers, for the electric lights of the Lulu illuminated the faces
of our audience, which soon, in addition to the strolling craft of the river,
numbered many canoes from the neighbouring house-boats, who were attracted by
the gaiety and lights, thus forming a typical river audience, thoroughly mixed,
seemingly on pleasure bent, good humoured, well behaved, polite, stolid, British.
Jimmie is hospitable to the core of his being, and nothing pleased him better
than to keep "open house-boat" for the entire floating population
of the Thames during Henley week. Every afternoon it was particularly the custom
about tea time for boats containing music hall quartettes or a boatload of Geisha
girls to pull up in front of the house-boat and regale the occupants with the
latest music hall songs.
In one end of their boat is a little melodion apparently built for river travel,
for I never saw one anywhere el
