"...the only other children we played with were the Rawdon-Smiths: Rawdon,
Geogina and Pauline.
...Looking back now, and reading Swallows and Amazons and Winter
Holiday, I can understand why he made Geogina and Pauline the Amazons,
because they were: you couldn't tell them from boys, always dressed in
knickerbockers and shirts; he couldn't help but use them."
Charlie Jolly in "Coniston Remembered", Mixed Moss 2 no 1 1994
The "Amazons": Georgie (right) and Paulie.
Paulie playing "Ducks and Drakes" (skimming flat stones).
Paulie aged 11 (about when she met Arthur Ransome)
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