OUTDOORS 



year in and year out until you could tell all 

 of the common birds by their flight a quarter 

 of a mile away. Get your ornithology direct 

 from the woods, streams, and fields. 



In walking, hold yourself well together. 

 Walk erect and from the hips, swinging your 

 arms easily. Never hump along or toe in. 

 It is perfectly simple to do this, and the easi- 

 est thing in the world to have a style and 

 verve in walking. And not more than one 

 man or woman in a thousand walks decently 

 well ; the rest amble, sprawl, slouch, or weave 

 along in a manner to disgrace pedestrianism. 

 Cultivate a chest well forward, the soft flan- 

 nel shirt, the hip movement, and the carriage 

 of a man and a soldier! Notice a West 

 Pointer! Why, he handles himself like a 

 greyhound. Seek for an erect carriage, so 

 that when you are seventy, men will turn and 

 say, " he carries himself like a man! " 



Here is the bridge. The water is low 

 now and you can see sunfish swimming in the 

 shadows of the bridge timbers. Do you 

 remember the " pin-hook " days of your boy- 

 hood? Lily-pads are thick here, and far- 

 ther up the creek you can see snowy water- 

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