But there are exceptions to every, rule; and in this case the exceptions decided to enjoy the rain. Some of them went out into the count smilingly they plodded their way, through the mud and managed successfully to delude themselves that they were enjoying the exercise. There were others, just a few people, who, seeing that Shanghai was fast' geining the appearance of a lake, decided to go on the river and have done with it. And they, let it be said, were the wisest of all. For they put on their oldest clothes and went way down the ver where they could enjoy undisturbed the fresh sea breezes and the soft wet rain. They found at Woosung a clean, sparkling greeness and the glorious smell of newly-turned, rain soaked earth.
And if you also had chosen to go on the river, you would have seen little blue boat speeding with an almost ostentatious display of surf, across the water. And if nee, you had chosen to look Gatloped as fast as they could go
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