Punch,  62 (1872), 31.

"If" (A Channel Sketch)

Anon

Genre:

Poetry

Subjects:

Transport, Engineering, Steamships, Travel, Disease, Railways


    Describes a journey by steamboat from Dover to Boulogne-sur-Mer which has been marred by foul weather and heaving waves. Proceeds to describe a dream of 'spring-seated' steamboats with padded passages, and wonders whether John Fowler or anybody else could design a boat that 'won't roll' and therefore does not make people sick.



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