Excerpt from The Remarkable History of Sir Thomas Upmore, Formerly Known as Tommy Upmore, Vol. 2 of 2 All this was far beyond my comprehension and he laughed again, when I told him so. Why, of course, what I mean is, that we want a coxswain, and you are the very man for it. Our present man is two stone too heavy, as well as a bad hand at the lines. And no man fit for it came up, last term. What lines? I asked, I can say the Georgics, and all the odes of Horace, and the three first books of the 'iliad, ' except the catalogue of ships; but I don't know what a coxswain is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.