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MANUAL LABOR. 



779. In schools for manual labor, there may be intro- 

 duced 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 all 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 undertake 

 the construction of some article of furniture, requiring 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 excitement, 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. 



780. 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 

 healthful mode of spending a few weeks, than the more 

 common one of lounging about watering-places, where it is 

 often found that there are neither wholesome lodging, 

 wholesome excitement, nor wholesome exercise. 



FIELD-SPORTS. 



781. Sporting with the dog and gun, and especially 

 with a well-trained pointer, afford to those who have learn- 

 ed to " shoot on the wing," the most exciting and healthful 



