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CHAPTER XY.

ROWING AT FION COLLEGE.

River Thames flows so near the College of Eton that it necessarily affords an attraction to the boys at least equal to the playing fields, and has always been frequented for bathing and rowing as well as other aquatic pursuits. All such amu: ments have been styled from time immemorial ‘Wet bobbing,’ as distinguished from cricket, which is ‘Dry hobbing :’ the boys who boat are called ‘Wer bobs’ and the cricketers ‘ Dry bobs.’ In the good old times, by which we mean the times told of by old men of our early acquaintance, extending to the end of the last and beginning of this century, the river was used by the boys for some other delightful though unlawful sports. Fishing