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for our last one on board.

We had a rather nasty passage up the river after we crossed the bar below Liverpool:  in fact it was the roughest part of the journey.   

When we [[?gaily]] got up to the city it was so blowey that we could not get into the dock and so were delayed some two or three hours:  finally went to the landing stage on a tender;  (a small side wheel steamer) & it was very rough and rather wet:  but we finally got there.  After having our baggage examined we went up to the Station and left our things and took a short walk about the town, then we came back and it was just time for the train to start so we bought our tickets and hopped in and in four hours and 


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a half we were in London, two hundred and ten miles.  Rather good going, don't you think?

Since we have been here we have been on the rush all the time, for as usual Small has every minute of the time accounted for.  The first day we spent at the national gallery (of course), and saw all the pictures again:  that is I saw them again the other fellows saw them for the first time.  Since then we have been seeing London.  Today we have a regular yellow fog and so can't see anything.  We had furiously made up our minds to spend this morning in writing home and I think it one of the pleasantest times that I have for I love to write to you dearest and tell you all I have been doing