Breakfast, 9. | Meat (broiled); bread (brown) and butter; tea, two
| cups. "Cocoa made of the nibs boiled for four hours
| is better than tea for breakfast."
| Smoking allowed (conditionally). "Smoking is barred,
| for, though here also a man's habits are to be
| taken into account, the subjects
| of training in match-boats are usually too young to
| have contracted a custom of smoking so inveterate
| as to have made tobacco indispensable
| to the body's internal functions, though it is not
| unfrequently so in older men. After breakfast is
| the only time allotted to the pipe."
Luncheon at 1. | Beef sandwich with half a pint of beer, or
| Biscuit and glass of sherry, or egg in sherry.
Exercise. | At 2.30 go out to row, and row over the whole
| course. "This altogether
| depends on the state of the crew."
| Wash in tepid water.
Dinner at 6 p.m. | Meat (roast, broiled, or boiled). "Any kind of
| wholesome meat thoroughly cooked."
| Vegetables--"The green foods permissible contain in
| their list spinach--the very best of all; sea-kale,
| asparagus, but without melted butter; turnip-tops,
| young unhearted greens, but not solid cabbages;
| broccoli, carrots, parsnips, and cooked celery.
| Turnips are also favored, and pease condemned; also
| cucumbers, and all salad mixtures. But boiled
| beet-root is good, and Jerusalem artichokes;
| and French beans stand next to spinach in virtue."
| The course is varied daily, so that no two days
| together shall see the same articles on the table.
| Pudding. ("Light puddings may be eaten.")
| Bread. Beer, one pint.
| Wine, two glasses of old port or sherry, or three of
| claret. Biscuits and dried fruits, as cherries,
| figs, etc., allowed. ("All fresh fruits are
| avoided.")
| Jellies. ("Plain jellies are innocuous.")
| Water. ("As much spring water as they have a mind
| to.")
Supper, 9. Oatmeal gruel if desired.
Bed at 10. N. B.--On Sundays a brisk walk of three hours or so
is taken.
SUMMARY.
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