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bad, or indifferent, did nothill& elee,
We
had
little or no
amu.~nt
in Canton,
An
occalltonal dinner
out,
&
lid
little vidtll amoll& 0=1I81vell, lI'al all.
~
WIele lI'all very fond
of rowing, and
had
a great opinion of it alt an e:urcile.
He
aecorillngly
bought an ordinary Ihip'l gig, about 18 feet long, in 1Ihich he, Dinell.
Bobertl! and 1IIIY,.lf went out every morning before breU:fallt and
had
a roll'
ot
five or 111x IIlilel, I 'WIed to hate it but Dever dared to complain.
The
tact wu that
I.!r,
Coolidge uled to keep 1M "" till paet 12 o'clock
every night. and thi, 1I'a. not a good preparation for a roll' at five o'clock
the next morningl Nor wal the eport pertect3.:7 ea/e.
On
ee1"eral occa-
1
I10ne
we
were hotly cbaled by
~e
boeta but
al~1
SllCceeded in getting
aWaf aafe17.
As
theee boate could go two feet to our one, I alwaye thought
they were afraid to come
up.
Tllil little boat of uncle 'I wa' the tather
of the re-organized Canton Regatta Club, which became. qu.1te t&mOua at a
later date. I
"'
a,}'
al well
stq
here that the following year, or the one
after, a young tellow named Larkin wal ata;riI18 with
'
WI.
He
bad
been
qll1 te a rowing man in :i:ngland, and put 'WI
up
to IIEInding an order to
Searle., the crack London builder,
tor
a tour-oared cutter. then ahe
arrived, great
W8S
the deeire to eee her, and it wae thought that a
feather would capille her. We never dared to get into her except in
Itt(ICk:1~
feet. I dare lIey that. nowa.da;yl, aha would be
th~ht
a reg-
ular barge. Ie had much good
fun
tn her, howeYer, and often rowed to
Wha:Dpoa and
back,
Rather more than a year &fter
lDIf
arri1'al in China an import_
ant event occurred, a t lealt in my juvlnile eyea.
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good deal of hostile
reeliqj; had been lhewn for aome time, and much oppoaition 1I'tI.1 made to
the repair. goiI18 on et the old East Indie COI'lIpany" ractory. which
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