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learn, and very unwilling
pupils many of them are too’.
Gautier continued to appear
as a ‘speciality artist’ in
vaudeville, dived from piers
with his hands and feet
manacled, and at the age of
forty-two performed with one
of his sons at New Lambeth
Baths; he also wrote a book,
Learning to Swim. Then, once
again, it was back to the
Thames, this time for a swim
from Putney Bridge to Tower