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BISHAM COURT.

CHAPTER III.

SCIENTIFIC OARSMANSHIP,

Ty a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well, whether it be undertaken in sport or as a means of livelihood.

‘he first principles of carsmanship may be explained to a beginner in a few minutes, and he might roughly put them into force, in a casual and faulty manner, on the first day of his education.

In all pastimes and professions there is, as even 2 child knows, a very wide difference between the knowing how a thing is done and the rendering of the operation in the most approved and scientific manner,

Tn all operations which entail the use of implements there are three essentials to the attainment of real merit in the opera- tion, These are, firstly, physical capacity ; secondly, good tools