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Sound of the Swan. The "Old Party," as Maugham calls himself, says he now has "an extraordinary sense of freedom, like a mother who has just had her last one." In spite of cheerfully resigned remarks about imminent death, he is in sound health, reads, entertains, eats and drinks well, and is planning a trip around the world that will include the Far Eastern settings (Burma, Thailand, Japan) of some of his best-known stories. And though this is absolutely his last book, he is still writing. "I am still amusing myself putting down different things that occur...
...Boston Garden. They opened April fifteenth. I bought a big straw hat just to ride the swan boats...
...aboard!" shouted one of these attendants. "Don't crowd the swan!" Jessie smiled at him and he tipped his hat. "Catch that," he nudged a companion. "Hey--" he asked Jessie, "room for one more under that...
Just then another swan boat docked. "He pedals it like a bicycle," Jessie noticed. "No wonder it goes so slowly." She grabbed Clipper's hand and ran aboard. "Wish we could go swimming," she said to a little boy beside...
Meanwhile the ducks were nosing the foreign straw object with curiosity, while a collie dog ran up and down the shore barking. The swan boat changed course, pedaling full speed ahead towards the center of interest. "They're going to rescue my hat!" Jessie sighed in the tones of a movie heroine. And, indeed, the attendant was poking away the ducks with a pointed stick. After some sleight of boat and hand, he fished the hat out and proceeded on course...