Our English Cousins
Our English Cousins
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If it is a still afternoon, you can hear the nearest of them counting together, the men in the boats sitting meanwhile as immovable as figure-heads on a man-of-war, and the five or six hundred bare-kneed runners on the towpath, who are wait- ing to race with their own boat, to encourage or warn her crew as the need may be, standing counting also, but silently and with only their lips moving.
" Thirty seconds gone," count the time - keep- ers ; " forty seconds gone ; fifty seconds gone.
Four — t...hree — two — one — row,*' and at the last word the ten cockswains shout in unison, the eighty broad backs lunge forward, and the scramble to touch the boat ahead and to keep out of the clutches of the one behind begins, and continues for six feverish minutes. There is one advantage about a bumping race in that the men can see how near they are to being bumped, while they cannot see without turning completely in their seats how near they are to bumping the boat in front. The advantage of this lies in the fact that they are always sure to pull their best when the danger is greatest, and that the cockswain can make them believe they are gaining on the boat in front by simply say- ing so.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If it is a still afternoon, you can hear the nearest of them counting together, the men in the boats sitting meanwhile as immovable as figure-heads on a man-of-war, and the five or six hundred bare-kneed runners on the towpath, who are wait- ing to race with their own boat, to encourage or warn her crew as the need may be, standing counting also, but silently and with only their lips moving.
" Thirty seconds gone," count the time - keep- ers ; " forty seconds gone ; fifty seconds gone.
Four — t...hree — two — one — row,*' and at the last word the ten cockswains shout in unison, the eighty broad backs lunge forward, and the scramble to touch the boat ahead and to keep out of the clutches of the one behind begins, and continues for six feverish minutes. There is one advantage about a bumping race in that the men can see how near they are to being bumped, while they cannot see without turning completely in their seats how near they are to bumping the boat in front. The advantage of this lies in the fact that they are always sure to pull their best when the danger is greatest, and that the cockswain can make them believe they are gaining on the boat in front by simply say- ing so.
What to read after Our English Cousins?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Davis Richard Harding to read onlineMoreLess
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