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 sharp work upon their legs. He should set them to run a mile or so after the day’s rowing, This will get off flesh, and will clear the wind, and meantime style can be studied in the boat. Long rows without an easy are a mistake for backward men who are also short of work, When the pupil gets blown at the end of a few minutes he re- -— lapses into his old faults, and makes his last state worse than the first. Training not only gets

off superfluous flesh, butalsolays on musele, The sooner the fat is off the sooner does the musele lay on. The commissariat feeds the newly developing mus- cles better if there is no tax upon it to replenish the fat as well. For this reason, apart from the importance of clearing the wind, heavy work should come early in training. When a crew who have been considerably reduced in weight early in their course of training, feed up towards the last, and gain in weight, it is a good sign, and shows that their labours have been judiciously