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record breaking while in
England’. Soon she was
giving an exhibition of fast
swimming at an indoor bath,
the press explaining she ‘hails
from the land of the
Cornstalk’ (‘cornstalks’ was a
term sometimes used to
describe ‘the first generation
of non-indigenous
inhabitants’ born in
Australia), with a debut that
included the ‘standing-sitting-
standing honeypot’ or