Three Men in a Boat.
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said to themselves: "Oh! we'd better get out of here while this billing and cooing is on. We'll go down to Kent."
And they would go to Kent, and the first thing they would see in Kent, when they got there, would be Henry and Anne fooling round Hever Castle.
"Oh, drat this!" they would have said. "Here, let's go away. I can't stand any more of it. Let's go to St. Albans—nice quiet place, St. Albans."
And when they reached St. Albans, there would