Excerpt from The Column: A Novel Apropos of interrupted Caspar, without mercy. Well, to be plain, if girls will bathe at all hours of the day and in the public sea, so to Speak, what can you expect Not that I would say a word against bathing; I always made the woman give Emily seven dips, until I found out that her children were down with measles. However But I thought Miss Hastings always bathed under the Folly - nobody ever goes there. Johnnie Caspar was startled into a whistle. Not by any wish of mine, I assure you, Dr. Gillies. I often say to George, Mr. Hastings' rights extend to the foreshore, and it's only neighbourly to respect them.' Still, you know what boys are! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.