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 who fills a place better than some yery backward oarsman. The old stager is case-hardened in his crimes ; they are second nature to him, and, in spite of coaching, still he maunders on in the same old style, with the same set faults. He has a time- honoured screw, a dog’s-eared elbow, and yet he possesses what many of the better-finished oarsmen do not—watermanship—

and can keep on at work ina rolling boat when many neater oarsmen are all abroad if the ship gets off her even keel. Not to coach his too obvious faults may make visitors’ fancy that the old screw is a pattern fugleman to be copied for style ; and yet to spend objurgation on one 50 stiff-necked is disheartening waste of wind.