BROADLAND SPORT 



over-curious and idle crowd on the public quay by mooring 

 near Foundry Bridge, the wherry was laid-to for the night 

 under the trees on the south bank of the stream at Trowse 

 Eye, in company with other craft. Amongst these were the 

 well-known fleet of Colonel Leathes, always recognisable 

 from afar by their prettily-trimmed red-and-white striped 

 awnings. 



After dinner the popular colonel honoured us with a visit 

 and through the rings of Havannah smoke he unfolded to an 

 attentive and admiring audience the triumphs of fifty years 

 ago, when Captain King's meadow (opposite) was yearly 

 thronged with the aristocracy of the county to 

 cheer on the local oarsmen to victory against all 



comers ; when the 

 1 feats of George 

 Knights of Wymond- 

 ham and others were 

 renowned through- 

 out England, and 

 how fifty-mile row- 

 ing matches were the 

 rule rather than the 

 exception. 



A request for a 

 yarn to enter in the 



COLONEL H. M. LEATHES ON CRUISE. ship's lOg-bOOk WaS 



immediately responded to as follows : 



" You must know that years ago the yachting men of the 

 county formed a private cruising club, which was probably the 

 origin of the yacht clubs of the present day. What charming 

 days those were with the cruising club ! What yarns at 

 night ! What music ! How delicious the early morning 

 plunge overboard all together at a given signal into the clear 

 limpid stream ! the chaff, the fun ! But I fear we sometimes 

 carried our jokes too far, and that our amusement was some- 

 what one-sided. The story I will tell is an instance of this, 



