Downstream

At Coates’s boathouse she
was ‘fired at by way of
encouragement, which, no
doubt, was very comforting,
and was certainly greatly
appreciated by those on board
the steamer, who cheered
lustily, and probably took the
compliment to themselves’.
She ‘received an ovation as
she glided prettily under
Barnes-bridge that must have
been highly gratifying’, the
‘merry young siren’ then