OUR REPRESENTATIVE MAN. -^e-/ 



about yachting : which won what, what came in when, and 

 why the other didn't this time but would next, and so on. 

 Guns at night. Somebody told me that they fired at the 

 sun as it went down behind the horizon ; which seemed a 

 puerile sport. I am more inclined to believe that it was in- 

 tended, not as a shot at the great luminary, but as a parting 

 salute on his retiring for the evening. 



The general idea conveyed by the appearance of Cowes to 

 the mind of Your Representative was that a naval engage- 

 ment was going on somewhere, perhaps in " the Roads '' 

 (absurd place, of course, for a naval engagement), and 

 that the reserves were making the best of " ten minutes 

 allowed for refreshment," on the island, before joining the 

 battle. 



But the great thing at Cowes is to master the difficulty of 

 " How to look like it.'''' 



First, two weeks as a regular Yachtsman of the R.Y.S. evi- 

 dently means ten thousand a year, at least. But how does 

 little Tom Tuppenny manage to do it on his three or four 

 hundred per annum at most ? Why, he has mastered the 

 secret of " how to look like itP And this is it for Cowes : 

 dress in yachting costume, ready, as it were, for action. If 

 you know anyone with a yacht, and you can get an invitation, 

 do so, of course ; only in this case, mind, you must have no 

 name on the hat-riband. If you have no yachting acquaint- 

 ance, look over the list of yachts, and buy a riband with a 

 na7)ie that isji^t in the Catalogue. 



This will give you an opportunity of spinning a yarn 

 about, " Confound it, 'bliged to put into dock. Just off for 



