WALKING IN CIRCLES
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sia,—I have just read, in your issue of April 24th, the letter from Africa on that subject. Being a cOnstant reader of your paper, I have followed the whole of that correspondence from the first.
Many years ago, when I was a member of the staff at the UniverSity of St. Andrews, I used every morning to allow Myself a run in the late winter claim to the end of the golf links, as they were then. I noticed that, in the fog or thick mist, I ran in circles from the right to the left. More than once I was brought back to the River Eden, so I set about teaching myself to run straight. Since, having become a runner on ski in the Swiss Alps, I often found myself in the same predica- ment amidst apparently limitless snows in winter fog. In the interval I had practised running, or walking, straight along pathways, 'closing my eyes, with a bank on one side and the gutter between me and the road. I was fairly successful in keePing to the bee-line. 'In later days I have found that the accomplishment thus acquired gave others much confidence in my leadership. I am by nature ambidextrous, or " ambi- sinistrous "—I can haidly tell which ; nor can my friends.—
I am, Sir, &c., F. F. Rower. Reform Club, Pall Mall, 5.07.1.
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