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even twenty-six strokes per
minute’. Described as
‘invariably cheerful’ and
regarded by Brickett as ‘the
most docile swimmer it
would be possible to have
charge of’, at twenty-five
miles she confessed to feeling
‘a bit tired’ but announced
her determination to ‘see it
out’.
The tone of the press report
is one of utter admiration:
‘All records were being