BRITISH SPORT PAST AND PRESENT 



' I have enjoyed rare sport in this position : but you will, 

 I need hardly explain, require a man and boat in attendance 

 not far distant when the flood makes a longer stay impossible. 

 Be sure the boat in waiting on you contains spare oars and 

 thowl pins : I was once nearly lost through my boatman 

 breaking an oar in his struggles, against wind and wave, to 

 arrive in time to save me from a ducking, the tide having 

 flowed more rapidly than usual over the small island of flat 

 sand I had dug my shelter-pit in. 



' It was indeed more exciting than amusing to watch the 

 violent efforts of my rescuer in his endeavours to scull up to 

 me with his one and only oar, the water meantime rising 

 above my long boots, and nothing but the angry sea in view 

 for a mile on every side.' 



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