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but that is because he walks barefoot ; his hands are often 

 made coarse by labor and neglect ; but his joints are neatly 

 turned, and his bone is small and dense ; his muscular struct- 

 ure, while lacking the fulness of fatter nations, gives him 

 considerable strength , and he has rather exceptional en- 

 durance. The same climate which produced the Arabian 

 horse has produced the Arabian runner. He lives under 

 skies where simple food and little of it will keep the hu- 

 man animal in good health and strong. He has to eat 

 purely for alimentation ; he does not raise enough to en- 

 able him to overeat ; his stomach remains in better con- 

 dition, and if reduced to slender rations he does not so 

 soon become a starveling. 



