Abroad with the Jimmies by Lilian Bell

Abroad with the Jimmies

By

Lilian Bell

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1900

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Abroad with the Jimmies

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Lilian Bell

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The "Jimmies" are an American married couple, and those who go with them on this journey of odd adventures are the narrator and her married sister, Bee, who left her husband and child at home, and seems to have forgotten them, judging from her attentions to a duke and to certain fine looking German officers. The women enjoy themselves vastly, and the man by yielding everything gets through alive, which is perhaps all he ought to have expected.

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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

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