Seeing that his strength was going from him, Robin leaped forward, and, quick as a flash, struck a back-handed blow beneath the sword arm.

THE FORE-HAND DRIVE THE BACK-HAND DRIVE SERVICE From photographs by Dexter.

I once asked a girl whom I noticed continually running round her back-hand in a practice game, why she did this.

That girl's back-hand could never improve; she made absolutely no distinction between a practice game and a match.

The Back-hand Drive is taken in the same way as the fore-hand, only with your position reversed.

The position of your feet for a back-hand stroke is most important; it is where so many beginners go wrong.

When playing a back-hand across the court, from corner to corner, let your arm and shoulder on the follow through be extended as far as they will go, and your body brought round to face the net.

[Illustration: THE BACK-HAND DRIVE BEGINNING MIDDLE FINISH]

It is nearly always best to lob to your opponent's back-hand, since the majority of players are weaker there.

She had a very fine fore-hand drive, but, like myself, a bad back-hand.

I played a straight back-hand shot down the line, passing Mr. Gore's forehandrather a desperate stroke, as if it failed to pass him it meant certain death from one of his straight-arm volleys.

Though, to be sure, she can't have much spirit if she consented to break off her marriage just on account of the back-handed benediction which Aunt Keswick told me she offered her as a wedding gift.

For the last thug Pretty had prepared a beautiful back-handed slash across the face; but the villain, seeing what was in store for him, dropped down, and rushed at the boy low enough to evade the stick.

The right arm, which was extended in falling, was now drawn under his body by another blow from one of the cubs, and his hand was by this motion brought into contact with the handle of his knife (a large couteau used for cutting up buffalo-meat), and this bringing the knife to his recollection, he drew it, and struck a back-handed blow into the right side of the dam, whom he still held by the hair with his left.

Now do the same back-handed, bending the wrist outward, and carrying the club behind the head first.

Now swing them both together, crossing them in front, and then the same back-handed; then the same without crossing, and this again backward, which you will find much harder.

Seeing that he had missed me, he raised the pistol and was about to hurl it at me when the English sergeant, with a single back-handed cut, nearly severed his head from his body.

"Now, then," he continued while she watched him with perplexity, "I hold my racket so in my right hand, and if a ball comes on my left, I return it with a back-hand stroke so, using my right hand; but there are players who shift the racket to the left hand and return the ball so, do you see?" "I see.

In the very act of turning I caught him fair with such another back-handed cut as that with which I killed the aide-de-camp of the Emperor of Russia.

On one occasion, when the question was written in a back-hand with a very light stroke and close to the upper edge of the slate, he looked at it three several times before he could read it.

and suddenly leaning forward, he struck Montagu a violent back-handed blow on the mouth.

Ah!"(with a sigh of irrepressible regret and back-handed pride)"you should have seen me half an hour ago!

" His clerical brethren at a meeting of the Association once undertook to call him to account for his odd expressions and back-handed strokes.