Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852

I have been all my life a sort of amphibious animal, having, like many an old Roman, learned to swim long before I had learned to read. The bounding backs of the billows were my only rocking-horse when I was a child, and dearly I loved to ride them when a fresh breeze was blow...