Sporting notions of present days and past

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keeping a constant flow through be too much?
It is always seems to me that what might be called
waste in this connection should be easily obviated.
Why could not bath water be used for other
purposes, as, for instance, watering the roads?
Unfortunately I have a very unwelcome cue
furnished for another word or two on unnecessary
risks and consequent suffering, said cue being a
canine acquaintance dead lame, with a foot-pad
cut nearly off, and others badly cut through
striking glass while running on a public play-
ground. How many people get maimed in a
year's bathing through this nuisance! If I were
writing articles about bathing and swimming in
the Old Country, more particularly in the Thames,
I think I should begin with a strong caution to
look out for broken bottles, very likely repeat the
same in the middle of my catalogue, and most
probably wind up with another monition to
beware of cutting glass. For weeks I had
intended to make an appeal on this head to the
foolish who work so much ill for want of thought
rather, we would believe, than through want of
heart, but who do, take one year with another,
cause an immense amount of suffering and
serious illness. Downright fiendish I call the
way that so many deal with a bottle directly
they have emptied it. If they don't think, or
rather, don't care, for such disregard of conse-
quences amounts to callousness, they jolly well
ought to be made to care—and that by rights
without the option.
Just a word about a danger accomplished
watermen create for themselves, which is almost
inconceivable to me, though some laugh at it.
To (ive one instance. I have seen a Tyne
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