Greetings!

I wanted to let you know about an interesting article that concerns
the sailing barge races on the Thames, Charles Dickens, his novel –
Our Mutual Friend and the "Golden Dustman" of London. You can learn
more at:
http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/work_dodd.shtml

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The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a
frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to
black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind
dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had
set on fire. – Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens