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fifty smacks under full sail, two or three miles out to sea, 

 working up or down with the tide, the white or tan sails 

 thrown up gracefully against a clear blue sky, to the 

 accompaniment perhaps of distant and heavy booming of 

 big guns at Shoeburyness. 



Coming Home. 



It may be interesting to note, in passing reference to this 

 town, that Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell, a great authority 

 on salmon and trout fishing, who was Chairman for a short 

 time of the Herne Bay Oyster Company, before it fell on 

 evil days, is alive and well, and has apparently outlived 

 most of those gentlemen who were then interested in it. He 

 says he has none but pleasant recollections of Herne Bay, 

 and has never ceased to regret that the Company's early 

 prosperity did not continue. The only friend in the 

 neighbourhood at that time, whose name and personality 



