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MANUAL LABOR. 



In schools for manual labor, there may be introduced 

 employments which to some, will in a degree answer 

 the purposes required. But these must be varied, so as 

 to give motion to the muscles in different parts of the 

 body. Plaining, sawing, turning the lathe, turning the 

 auger, and chopping with the axe, will in succession, 

 bring all the voluntary muscles into play. But as we 

 have seen, unless the subject can contrive to make these 

 employments exciting to the mind, very little advantage 

 will be gained from them. If therefore the student con- 

 fines himself to such kinds of exercise, he must under- 

 take the construction of some article of furniture, re- 

 quiring the products of these different branches of labor ; 

 and if several will undertake the construction of the same 

 article, there will be produced some degree of excite- 

 ment during the progress of the work, by a comparison 

 of the different specimens produced. But if the labor 

 is not sufficiently active to induce general and profuse 

 perspiration, especially in the warm season, little good to 

 the debilitated student may be expected from it. 



SCIENTIFIC EXCURSIONS. 



Excursions into the country on foot, especially among 

 woods and mountains, in search of insects, or Botanical 

 and Mineralogical specimens, to those who are fond of 

 natural history, produce considerable energy of feeling 

 and action ; and during the warm season, for those who 

 live in cities especially, is a far more rational and health- 

 ful mode of spending a few weeks, than the more com- 

 mon one of lounging about watering places, where it is 

 often found that there are neither wholesome lodging, 

 wholesome excitement, nor wholesome exercise. 



FIELD SPORTS. 



Sporting with the dog and gun, and especially with a 

 well trained pointer, affords to those who have learned 

 to " shoot on the wing," the most exciting and health- 



