The commander of one the big] British men-of-war visiting Shanghai happens to be very keen on sailing and, getting into touch with Prominent member of the Yacht Club, he was offered the loan of a oat whenever he cared to take it out, Some few days ago he venture ed in one of the Byrne boats and was So enraptured with its behaviour in all circumstances that he spent the whole of an afternoon shooting about the river, The boat's owner, thinking a little naval competition might add to the sport provided by the lub, sought his lowdah the next day and asked:—"Yesterday one master takeo boat, He can sail?" The Taodah looked far way into the distance and in an off hand manner little." men of 1H, M. Navy nowadays are not what they were in the days of Nelson, but the officers do go through a sailing course and, if we were forced to believe it, it would be galling to think that the commander of one of our cruisers did not know more About handling a small sailing boat than a Huangpu laodah. Especially when one knows the laodah. The names of the parties concerned? Oh, no, not for any persuasion,
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