(4) That if your crew is impeded while rowing
a course you must allow ten seconds; but if any other crew is impeded you must allow only two seconds.
(5) That if you row a slow course, No. 5's stretcher gave way, or his slide came off.
(6) That you could always knock a quarter of a minute off when you row a faster stroke, but that—
(7) You never do, as a matter of fact, row a faster stroke.
(8) That your crew always rowed a slower stroke than the rest.
(9) That you are sure to do a faster time to-morrow.
(10) That your private opinion is, that if everybody in the crew did as much work as you do yourself your crew would be many lengths faster, and—
(11) (and last) That you always lose by the steering of your coxswain three lengths, which all other crews gain by the steering of theirs.
[11] In "In Cambridge Courts."