No wonder that Mr. JEFFRY MAULBOY was looked up to and courted, for he had a medal bestowed upon him as a Champion Paddler, and had lost a bet of fifty dollars on the "Great International Contest.

He had a small, flat-bottomed steamboat and a number of little boats propelled by fifty black paddlers.

Having received their supplies, the canoes backed away and went moving up or down the river as the paddlers desired, sometimes two or three canoes close together, sometimes one alone, but all, whether alone or in groups, filling the occupants of the launch with desperate envy.

several voices cried in wonder, and the paddlers stopped spellbound with their paddles poised in air.

Right after dinner the little voyaging party pushed out from the dock and headed upstream; three canoes side by side with ponchos and provisions stowed away under the seats, and the Winnebago banner trailing from the stern of the "flagship," the one in which Miss Amesbury rode, with Sahwah and Migwan as paddlers.

By common consent they paddled slowly at the outset, wisely refraining from exhausting their strength in the first mile or so, as is so apt to be the case with inexperienced paddlers.

Late in the afternoon Jo Severance suddenly cried out, "Here we are!" and called out to the paddlers to head the canoes toward the shore.

Agony was stern paddler of the Dolphin, the most important position next to the Captain.

Besides Sahwah and Agony the Dolphin crew consisted of Hinpoha, Migwan, Gladys, Katherine, Jo Severance, Jean Lawrence, Bengal Virden, Oh-Pshaw, and two girls from Aloha, Edith Anderson and Jerry Mortimer, a crew picked after severe tests which eliminated all but the most expert paddlers.

It took all of Agony's skill as stern paddler to swing the Dolphin around and keep her out of the current.

Mary, like all other Indians, was passionately fond of the water, and in spite of her crooked back was a strong and skillful paddler.

"Ah! you old water-paddler," said she, "was it you that spoke?

And she's got an expert paddler to take her there.

In this way the deer may be approached within a few yards if the paddler is skillful; but as he stands perfectly still, and is difficult to see in the dim light, the tyro generally misses him.

A girl who doesn't know enough to keep out of the current isn't to be trusted with a canoe, no matter what a fine paddler she is.

In making the same passage the dugout would go sideways toward the rapid until by a supreme effort her three powerful paddlers and steersman would right her just in time.

The native paddler, after he has used the light Canadian paddle, prefers it to the best native make.

My own paddlers lost or broke all of their own paddles so as to get the North American ones, which they marked with their initials and used most carefully.

Several dragon boats filled with rowers, rather paddlers, were contesting this afternoon in the harbor.

Jane and I, however, were anxious to see what appearance Srinagar presented, so we manned the shikara with five able-bodied paddlers and pushed our way upwards.

"With the paddlers and waders.

Immediately the foremost white man threw up his rifle and shot the paddler dead; and a second later one of his companions coming up, killed in like fashion the Indian in the bow of the canoe.

It was almost sunset when they came back, the tired paddlers keeping near that shore on which they intended to land.

It takes three minutes for a skillful paddler to run that dangerous race of three quarters of a mile.

One man took a stern seat to steer, and four or five more had seats along the gunwale as paddlers and, as they moved away, their strokes were as even and regular as the motions of an engine, and their crafts danced as lightly on the water as an egg shell.