Posted by Pam Adams on January 04, 2007 at 18:40:42 from 134.71.192.243 user PamAdams.
In Reply to: Re: Rowing "Navy Style" posted by alan truelove on January 03, 2007 at 05:13:00:
Clearly 'Navy-style' doesn't have to be seen to be identified.
From Rudyard Kipling's 'Their Lawful Occasions':
That cry came from under the Devolution’s stern. Pyecroft held something in his teeth, for I heard him mumble, ‘Our Mister Moorshed!’
Said a boy’s voice above us, just as we dodged a jet of hot water from some valve: ‘I don’t half like that cheer. If I’d been the old man I’d ha’ turned loose the quick-firers at the first go-off. Aren’t they rowing Navy-stroke, yonder?’
‘True,’ said Pyecroft, listening to retreating oars. ‘It’s time to go ’ome when snotties begin to think. The fog’s thinnin’, too.’
pam