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" back a little more! Heads up! Don't feather quite so high. That's all right to do when there are little choppy waves, that would cause splashing, but in calm water the lower you feather the less you have to raise the spoon of the oar. Of course don't do any 'riffling.' That holds back the boat. When I see you in an eight, with a coxswain, so you don't have to think about steering, I can tell better how you will do."

This was Mr. Pierson giving some coaching advice to the four boys, who were out in the shell. He was following them in the launch owned by his friend, at whose cottage he was visiting.

"I'm wondering if I'll have wind enough for a four-mile race, pulling even thirty to the minute?" said Sid.

"And we may have to hit it up to thirty-two or three," put in Tom.

"Don't worry about those things now," advised the Cornell graduate. "They will work themselves out when you get in training. Of course