436 on an oar the rowlock of which is like- wise on the starboard side, which way will the bow of the boat turn, to port or to starboard. The boat is of course supposed to be in balance. Allen is vigourously leading this debate and claims that the boat will turn to starboard, most of the rest of us, in- cluding myself, claim that she will turn to port. H.E.P. says that she will not turn in either direction, the other seem not to care. Allen Hovey & Co The debate has grown so heated that Allen, backed up by a model which he has just whittled out and tried in our fire hole in the ice, has some ten dollars bets up that he is cor- rect.