[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
fancy your correspondents, Mr. Keith Briant and Major Frank Savile, will find the passage that they are seeking in Ouida's Under Two Flags, ch. II, The Loose Box and the Tabagie. The following extracts bear-on the -point :
" Beauty don't believe in training. No more do I. Never would train for anything,' said the Seraph.. . . ' But you must have trained at Christ Church, Rock, for the Eight ?' asked another Guardsman, Sir Vere Billingham. . . . Did I ! men came to me ; wanted me to join the Eight ; coxswain came, awful strict little fellow. . . . Coxswain said I must begin to train, do as all his crew did. I threw up my sleeve and showed him my arm ' ; and the Seraph stretched out an arm magnificent enough for a statue of Milo. I said, There, sir, I'll help you thrash Cambridge, if you like, but ;rain I won't for you or for all the University. I've been Captain of the Eton Eight ; but I didn't keep my crew on tea and toast.' . . . he was very glad of my oar in his rowlocks, and I helped him to beat Cambridge without training an hour myself, except so far as rowing hard went."
Oaklea, Hook, Hants.
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