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INCONSEQUENCES.

MY DEAREST KIIT,

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 29′′¤, 1907.

You can see now, can't you, that it'd be absurd to want to hear the other side, after what I've told you? But what I am trying to do is to flad a good recipe for laying Chests. so good-bys vor,

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TOPSY TULYT.

IN SMALL SAILING CRAFT.

.

Have you ever heard of a Mr. Cobden was a faire prophet who lived about fifty years ago and has done ever so much more harm thao Henry the Eighth, although he did murder his wires, because you Ben Mr. Cobden thought he was good and so people bollored what Lo said, whereas you knew that whatever Henry the Eighth said he only wanted a new wife. And the reason why I have to mention Cobden is, because he's the opposite to Mr. Chamberlain,

FROM "THE TIMES." is who wente Turit Reform, which gaito the Intest fashion, and I like it anfully, noxt best to

A friend of mine treasures a cutting frous a motoring. And it's quite easy if you insist on forgotten newspaper, which bears seme verses aly hearing one side, an then you don't get by a nameless neet, who, after announcing Guidled, and zover den

112 ке good afgurageously that ho bas tried all the pleasures ing both miler, as ther you can't feel of the world, concludes with the view

you're right, and if nct.

300 YO jare right, you can't re

Lave any influence, and how can you

if haven't any in fluence? And I never understood a word when Archie kopt talking about *** and "important duties and "Becal and all sorta

ta of diffent worde, till ono Monday morning I saw wolva diferent laudry casts up washing from twelve different houses stood Tariff Reform directly. And it's like in the superlative degree for this. Supposing you're get inelre families all-but not, ak most of the living in one villago and all dreadfully writers on that theme poor because they've got me employment. Well one day somebody suggests that they eball all start taking in each other's washing as then they'll all bare work and bo carving something. And it answers bonatifully and they are all getting rieb, till

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time with contempt and, if there was a good deal of very slow and sunbaked progress upon a lasy stream and against gentle aire, no expedition was ever without its summas gale, which, when it blow straight down a reach), the steersmaa plenty to do and called upon him grave to exercise a good deal of strength on tiller and sheet, and, when it was contrary, kept the whole ship's

of tre busy and employed. Looking back,

two and leaves a calm between them. They hare very smart little one-design boats at Ozforil now on the upper river, and a remark ably pretty sight they are when the Boode cover Port Maadow; but when ustigation is restrict ed to the river there is abundant opportunity for study of the tricks of the wind, and of their onuses hagriok, a hedge or row of pollerde perhaps and that study pays. To watch the boats dart to and ten when the breeze is with the stream, and it is balt among three opinionsg forward tan, I

in one wall street, and then of course I under-1 to Bacon, who say this is to run counter to obtain boats of hiebor class the pace of would be that of pitying contempt; but that, in

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suddenly ous day a false prophet is born in gentle exercise, with ontorludes need to capwiza now and again for all identical fashion. An old song-writer thought

•the false

wrote

he was pouring forth scorn on the lovers of the water when he

Some like to glide car flowing tide, in a

galley fast and free,

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desired to sad up, to see some osrry on most enjoyable when the bost glides down Is the passing hour until they are well within an expanse of un- stream without effort, and when one may lie ruffed water, while others turn about deftly at supius, eteering instinctively and talking or the edge of it, even though it be but half-way when a tearing storn wind some to bring across, is to bave an opportunity of gauging the Bearer and nearer the moment when one must wils of the unknown and joyous skippars

either

run into the bank or gybe and risk Oxford sailing boata are of incomparably braben higher class than they were; but it is to buds or when the lusty breeze is a motor, and, tacking every minute or so, And Loro it was the beat of them,

doubted whether the present generation of the little craft darts through the Bat Sleep worth all the rest of them.

undergraduates secures more enjoyment from healing over gaily at an

hissing ontor, an angle which looks worse omniscience in pleasure, but also without having obtained out of radr craft.

With at being rash enough to claim this them than this predecessors of the seventies than it is, and the gnawale is all bat below the

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ona Wey surface! After all, however, what does it matter preferential tariff" Beglected wilfully any legitimate avenue to il certainly, they cannot ca birod, were of fair be all delightful la their kind, as they are fa so much pleasure. which is the most enjoyable experience, if they roform" It is a

ворел to ma te proelaim that, fer those who litsit at all, sailing in any class for that date; so are thoirs for this date.

sincere opinion Our boats or those which we

those who like to handio sailing bosta? Of kind of vessel, largo or small, is the purest of

It was possible then, ,and it io to Мая, по doubl.

course there are those who do not, and tho human pleasures. To

Southampton conreational attitude to adapt towards them

ཐམས་ purity of pleasure on the Merens, or on the Clyde.

our boats, being the best attainable then, was as tenth, is rather a senseless habit, for not only is soal satisfying to us as the far greater speed of the massima de gustibas" of univeral applica appear to theirs is to them now. And we could grains in tion, but also it is fortunate that tastes ie for manual labor in the garden. For him who with a bat cranky tube, and frianda pastime vary, wou'd have his hands and brain occupied, but

The playtime of life would 18 on Occasion whereas they cer. not to access always; there is nothing in this tainly cannot do that in their fast-sailing

be a poer and congested thing indeed it all the active men and women who happened world to beat sailing in general, and aniling of tabs distasteful to them. Like them, we boats, and these have made the roomy

to be at leisure simultaneously were keenly small craft in particular, for

desirous to enjoyment

ame themselves in precisely and of keen oroitemout, calling for rapid use of these boats are rentroboards, and a contrahoard judgemont and prompt action. From the nga foole, and is, wonderfully stiff up to a point, but of fourteen for some thirty years I have handled when that point is reached she gres over with a and steered small sailing boats whenever there, and as she goes one way you go the other, was or seemed to be, a reasonablo excuse for if you remerabor in time, and sit on the edge or indulging in the pastime, and on occasions have the bottom of your wrecked craft until such steered large yachts and have directed the time as a good Samaritas, or a salvor requiring operations of the crow; but, after turning over payment, shall come to the resene. It is an many a glorious experience in memory, it is ignominious plight at best, bat there was more plain that the bttle boats in which one boy er comfort about it, or loss discomfort, with the old man, or at the most two, did all the work, bors craft then there is with the new, because the all the responsibility, made all the mistakes, halls of old tiate were bigger. Besides that, we ran all the risks, and laughed at all the mishaps,

could cruise, and we did. A crates up river was were, in the words of boyhood, twice as much fan not to be undertaken in the boats of the last as lae more ambitions yachts.

century. With a contrary wind and plenty of My training has been acquired whensover water in the river, it took all a winter's after there was a chance. It began in an open boat,

noon, and more seamanship than the majority 14ft. long, rather broad in the beam, and with of undergraduate mariners possessed, to make an unusually deep keel, in the Merni Strails. the passage to Godstow, a distance of less than She carried two spritsails, jib and staysail, and

two miles. An attempt to penetrate higher could be handled easily by a pair of boys. In

renches still of the stripling Thames, lees her one learned many things-how best to known then than Low, was orco made the arrange the ballast so as to impede her pace least occupation of several days; but it was a failure, and to promote her steadiness most; how to help except as a towing expedition, for there w har round when going about ship-fox she was little sailing, even down stream, by reason of a trifle flow in stay--by backing stayil the sinuosities of the Isis and of a terrible or jib; when to turn her head on ta abundance of shallow water. But, with heary seas, when to expect a gybe and how

as a constant aid several summer reyages have to deal with it: bow much water it

been made from Oxford. to Teddington Lock, was safe to lake in on the lee side before and the memory of all of them is of pleasure slackening the sheet or letting her head come without alloy. Once or twice a friend and I up to wial; for it is to be noted that most good slept in the boat, spreading the mainsail over aniling beats have a tendency to come up

the the

rain; but "the ceilings of the boat were of an astonishing hardness, and the only things to be said for the process were that It pro- moted early rising and that it gave one s reason for pitying the inmates of prisons. Riverside ins, fairly simple, and reasonable in the matter of charges in those edaye for the most part, were a great

deal more comfortable. Each

what we'll call the fool-family, and he says why not all take in each other's washing for not hing F Well-don't yon eae that'd be all right if they all agreed to do it for nothing, because you only count yourself rich or poor by what other people are. But as it happened, the eleven families said, Ob! no, they should go on charging for the washing they took in, as they liked having a little money coming in, though they'd no objection to the fool-family taking theirs in for nothing. So, of course, you can see what happened. The cleven families all kept on sending men and more of their washing to the fool-family, because they got it done for nothing by him, and so they got rickor and richer, as they get paid for what he sent them, whilst the fool-family got poorer as it tock in money, only washing while the others took in not only money, but the poor fool, ico, who want on being obetinale just because prophet had prophesied that in five years at the latest the other families would be sure to see how much nobler it was to do things for nothing, and would follow their example. Well of course, if they had all come round, it'd have been all right, because it you are all fools together it doesn't so much matter-bat-which just shows what men are and how dreadfully perstitious-the five years Cobden talked of in his prophecy, bare come to Bitty, and the eleven families are still charging the poor fool woors and more, and Mr. Campbell-Beauerma, who has inherited the wind rather than to fall away from it. One ble en cockpit to keep off the devs or possi false prophet's place, because there's a tradition in that family that there must always be one fool I mean prophet-ie so afraid of offending the ghost of the dead prophet that he still uses the Samo old arguments which have been ghosts, too, for over so long because railway and steamers have changed everything that gave any sense to what the prophet said all these years ago,

learned, too, to rospect the tides, especially the seven-knot tides of the Swillies, which lie between the Memi Bridge and the Britannia: to take advantage of eddies and to know where to look for them-that is to say, behind expes and prom-utaries, upon which the tide impinges: and, above all, fo watch for squalle scurrying

current

And I think it's very unkind to poor Mr. over the ses on the weather side, vorage was of necessity leisurely, at on period:

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which came suddenly down the pass of Cobden, when everything has happened exactly Aber, when we were sailing carelessly in a light se he prophesied it would not, to go on pretend breeze with main sheet inexonsably bolayed, ing that he would have argued that, because and laid us on our boam ende, taught that lesson things were exactly the reverse of what he had once and for all. In fact, the old boat, which thought they would be, therefore he would want was taken outside Carnarvou far and into the exactly the same things done he would bave

bave open water beyond Puffle Island in strong wanted bad things been just the opposite. And breezes now sad again, was a valuable teacher I abould like to start a Society for the Protes and the memories of those summer days, when tion of Cobden from his own aborigines his one was always wet with the splashing of the wild prophecies, I meas, for they're all come sea, are imperishable. The craft was rough and wrong, and I hope Mr. Campbell Bannerman heavy, no doubt, but she was our own We won't be very angry if I let out what he's ny painted her overy year, Erst caulking her seame to, for I can see perfectly well that he agrees and patching some of her planks, with car own with Colden, who said--wait & minute, hand; and we grow to feel that she had a charac I've got it written down so as not to ter and an individuality. Nor was thle a fond make a mistake. The colonial system, with delusion of boyhood. Much sailing in lar

larger all its dazzling appeals to the passions of the and more fashionabis craft in later years bas people, can never be got rid of except by the proved to demonstration, or har, at all evente indirect process of Free Trade which will produced the conviction, that gradually and imperceptibly lose the bands a distinct character, almost a personality, of her boat has GVOTY notion of self-interest." So you see, if Mr. friends, order balling froms as builler, and he which unite our colonies to us by a mistaken own. When a railing club, or a body of private dezen identical craft for Campbell-Bannerman thinks that Cobden is

one-design" right about Free Trade and the results of constructs them in exactly the same way, on Free Trade, he must want the hauds which exactly the same lines, and of equal material, upite our eclonies to us to be inosened, as to the best of his ability, it is an almost in that is to the result of Free Trade, and, variable result that they differ m quality of course, that's why he won't agree to any and expability. One will orcel the others in thing that the Colonial Premiers want, as he closeness of sailing, another will always go knows that is just the opposite, and w uld ahead before the wind; one will have sa draw the bands tight, Only the worst is, he does- advantage in a light breese, another in a strong n't say so outright, but tries to take up the at-wind; and this will happen even if the skippers ention of the English nation by Boating exciting and crews be interchanged. Nature, it is mald, toy torpedoes in a little backwater of his own, so makes no tae creatures absolutely identical and that they shan't notice that the real trading men, it appears, cannot make two things which ehips are going past and leaving them behind, shall be entirely equal. Every cricket bat, toonis For what does it matter-compared to keeping racquet, fishing rod, rifle and certainly overy an Empire and baving good trade--if a bill in bonf, has its own peculiar and private character. proposed about the Dissolution of the Lords, who aren't really, Charlie says, |

This was impressed upon me forcibly a bit more parts of the world about as distant from one dissolute than the Commons, and I can se Another as they could be-that is to say, at zow why Mr. Campbell Bannerman was 80 Perth in West Australis, and at Oxford. ancomfortable all the time the Colonial Pre At Forth tho Swan River spreads itself out miers were bere, sed Charlie and

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into a broad lake er lagoon, ideal for smalt dispute as to which Mr. C.-B. would rather boat sailing, on which black swans are the rale, Find himself sitting opposite, on a long journey, and beside which sailing boste may be hired. when he's going for a holiday- Colonial They are to all appearance of one design, little

And then sette?

centroboards with a single sail and a mast

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PAYS CLA 2,, C.-D. --ght stepped well forward; yet, after many trials, to be just an unamfortable with every working one was found to be far better than any of the men he meets, for if he believes that Cobden was others, But the discovery was then no orolty. a trae prophet--and you can see, can't you, that It had been made at Oxford, confirmed on certainly wasn't an elever as Isaiah, who was Southampton Water and on the Selent, and so vegne he could never go wrong, or old Moorn whoes things do often come true- then he ought again on the Mozai Straits. It will be 9am-

firmed to abolish Trados Unions at once, for another

no doubt, in the case of the one thing that Cobden said-here it is: "Depend dosiga sailing bouts with which the members of the Motor Yacht Club are seeking to banish upon it, nothing can be got by fraternising with some of the weariness which comes of watching Trade Uniona. They pre founded pon motor-bont races. (The last are to deadly Principle of brutal tyranny and monopoly. I for anything, because, if there be no bandicap, uld rather live under a Boy of Algiers than a few serouits mean a vast distance between the Trades Commi tee,"

competing toafs, sud, when there is a handicap

So now that Mr. Campbell-Bannertuen has by time allowancy, everybody except judge and tried to get rid of religious education and of timekeeper has d-parted before the last little Ireland, through what Charlle calls his "donhla boat orawis in and the vital calculations have Birrelled" the next thing he'll try to abolish been made. But let there be no misunderstand- if he's logical-but I h Birrell &

tall give Mr. ing. Although no two oro-design bosta ny and fake him away, as identical, racing them is the best of apart somebody else's inen to be Government for competitors, since men are not all equal Anat

now-ie Trades Uzione and then

ben any more thau boats are, and the worse boat,

it's

Sally

wezkall sas what the working men will say about well steered and

Free Trade. And isn't it stupid to call it free better, not 80*** will often beat the

managed. Nor, except there is no high Innd

Readings in free to their countries, so it's upon knowing how to steer and how to trims s

and

Trade when it's only free to foreigners who can on dead water bring

their things into England, but who won't near, does the issue of the race depend merely let oor

win and tails we lose. Why: it's handle the stila. In other cizonmstances brains just as though a father of a large hungry count, and count for a family wore to stand out in the street and know the currents and their variation, and

grost

deal. You must shout "tree pockets! " and let the passers you must use your knowledge. Not being by pick all his pockety. Lovely for the passers- a pig, you cannot see the wind; hat by, but not quite so nice for the hungry family

Jou at home, who think it would be only fair if the here, and the flat calm there; and sonte- water abeat pockets of the passers by wore also free; only as times, by looking intelligently to windward, they're not such tools, the poor family has to be may perosive the cause of both, the opening content with being told that they are setting among the hills allowing the breeze to reach the the world a noble example-which doesn't water, the obstacle which, like a boulder in a satisfy their banger all the same.

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