Quail Shooting 



While beyond all doubt a whole- 

 sale denial of the importance of physi- 

 cal exertion to a desirable condition of 

 bodily strength would savor of fool- 

 ish hardihood, we are by no means 

 obliged to concede that mere activity 

 of muscles without accompaniment 

 constitutes the exercise best calculated 

 to do us good. In point of fact we 

 are only boldly honest and sincere 

 when we insist that really beneficial 

 exercise consists as much in the pur- 

 suit of some independent object we 

 desire to reach or gain by physical 

 exertion, coupled with a pleasant stim- 

 ulation of mental interest and recre- 

 ation, as in any given kind or degree 

 of mere muscular activity. Bodily 

 movement alone, undertaken from a 

 sense of duty or upon medical advice, 

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