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never did. In my opinion, and no one had as good opportunity 

 to judge, he was a skilful and careful sailor. He knew what his 

 boat could do, and he never took chances, when I was with him 

 at least, and we never got into trouble. 



He had learned sailing without much aid from others, and was 

 singularly ignorant of the technical terms. He told me that he 

 could never remember which was starboard and which port. I 

 had acquired this elementary knowledge and was rather proud to 

 be able to tell him. Whereupon he put an " S " on one side of the 

 cockpit and a "P" on the other. But in spite of this constant 

 reminder I am quite sure that with his eyes shut he could not have 

 told which side "S" was on. And so with pennants. He never 

 provided himself with them, because, as he said, "I don't know 

 how to use them." Another peculiarity is the fact that his boat 

 never had a name. He spoke of her as the " Spectrum," but that 

 name did not appear on her. The essential thing to him was the 

 boat. The boat was just as good without as with a name, and he 

 got just as much fun out of the sailing without a knowledge of 

 the lingo and the frills as with. 



I have left the riding to the last, though it played a more im- 

 portant part in his life than either fishing or sailing. He took up 

 riding after he came to Baltimore and never became as expert at 

 it as at these. He was not graceful in his movements and was not 

 a graceful rider. He seemed, however, to catch the essentials and 

 soon he was known as a fearless and skilful rider. He joined the 

 hunting club of Baltimore and for years rarely missed a meet. 

 On one occasion in the early period of his history as a rider, he 

 entered himself and horse as a competitor in a "gentleman's 

 steeple chase." It was a difficult race. He won. I drove him 

 out and back. His success gave him great satisfaction. As he 

 was near-sighted and always wore eye-glasses he sometimes got 

 into difficulty in riding through woods, but neither he nor his 

 horse was ever seriously hurt. His passion for riding after the 

 hounds is well illustrated by an experience he had in England of 

 which Professor Trowbridge tells in the letter already referred to: 

 "I introduced Rowland to a fox-hunting gentleman, an old acquain- 



