"To see how the young idea was shooting, eh?" grunted Jimmy.
"Precisely. And when the coaches saw me they were struck with my peculiar—ahem——!"
"Unfitness!"
"Wrong again, the phrase I was going to use was, 'peculiar fitness,' fitness, do you get it? for the job, and begged me to help them out."
"And you helped?"
"What could I do? Other things are claiming my attention but I could not see rowing go to the bad down there, so I accepted as gracefully as I could."
"And now things are in a rotten state?"
"For the second time, wrong and always wrong. They are improving daily. Of course, I'm not in the first boat yet, it would have created too much jealousy, but I have assurance from headquarters that I will be moved into the coveted position of cox of the Freshman crew as soon as it has been picked."
"Heaven help the first Freshman crew then," groaned Jimmy.