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amusements is the free use of the limbs. Don't be 

 afraid of them. They will grow every day stronger 

 and stronger, if worked with ordinary judgment. 

 If a man be healthy, pedestrian exercises can seldom 

 be taken in excess. Even when great fatigue is 

 felt, it is a fatigue which does not weaken the gen- 

 eral system. On the contrary, a man feels himself 

 strong and active after a severe day's toil. This, 

 of course, is subject to certain conditions; and the 

 true principle of these are, that he does not eat 

 too much, nor is too free with his bottle. With 

 respect to eating a full and hearty meal during a 

 long walk, we have seen strong and robust men 

 brought to a state of complete helplessness by such 

 untimely indulgence. The fact is, nature will not 

 bear this double tax on her resources ; it is lighting 

 the candle at both ends. Every angler will find 

 this to be the case, when perambulating through 

 such a country as the Scottish Highlands When 

 he has to walk twenty or thirty miles, he should, 

 during his movements, take little solid food, till he 

 has completed his task; and, even then, his meal 

 should be light and spare. We have, ourselves, 

 some twenty-five years ago, often been angling for 

 eighteen hours at a stretch, with, perhaps, about an 

 hour's rest in the interim, and we have been sus- 

 tained by a little bread and cheese, or a cup or two 

 of cold tea, and without the slightest injury to the 

 body. Even bread alone, sipping (not drinking) 

 water with it, has kept us in a vigorous state 

 to the end of our journey. Of course, there are 



