Q. Where is river water found?
A. Anywhere between Vauxhall and London Bridges. It is inhabited principally by flounders and bargemen.
Q. What is pipe water?
A. An intermitting stream, having its source at some distant basin. It usually runs into a cistern, until the water-rates get into arrear, when the supply ceases through the intervention of a turncock.
Q. Where is gin-and-water to be found?
A. All over the world; but especially in the vicinity of a cab-stand.
Q. In what other manner is the Thames water divided?
A. Physically speaking, into oceans, seas, gulfs, bays, straits, lakes and rivers.
Q. What is an ocean?
A. Any great body of water whose limits it is impossible to describe, as The Floating Bath at Southwark-bridge, and The Real Tank at the Adelphi Theatre.