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['Gentleman, aged 26, seeks adventure; well up in finance, / badminton, tennis, swimming, canoeing, bridge, and mechanics; / banker's reference, if required. ' -- The _Times_.]
My word! I'm the chap for adventures! / There's nothing on earth I can't do, / From dabbling in doubtful debentures / To paddling a birch-bark canoe! / At golf, when I get into trouble, / How 'dead' my approaches are laid! / At bridge, how I dauntlessly double / Each spade! / While as for lawn-tennis, there never was yet / A player who volleyed so hard at the net!