A paddle is worked, too, differently from an oar.

An oar acts as a lever against the side of the boat,--the middle of it resting in a small notch called a row-lock, or between two wooden pins.

But a paddle is held in the hands entirely.
"What do they have paddles for in this country ?" said Marco.

"Oars are better." "You are not competent to decide that question," replied Forester.
"Why not ?" said Marco; "I have rowed boats many a time." "Yes, but you have never paddled much.

You have used oars, but not paddles, and so you can not compare them." "Well," said Marco, "I mean to try this paddle now, and then I can tell." Marco had seen the boys who were with him in the boat that morning, using their poles as paddles, and he had used one of the poles in that manner himself; and he was just upon the point of saying something upon the subject, when suddenly he recollected that it would betray him.