108 SALMONIA. [FOURTH DAY. 



but the larger proportion through Italy, where they 

 are carried by the Sirocco, and which at that time is 

 extremely wet. Come, let us have another bottle of 

 claret : a pint per man is not too much after such a 

 day's fatigue. 



HAL. You have made me president for these four 

 days, and I forbid it. A half pint of wine for young 

 men in perfect health is enough, and you will be able 

 to take your exercise better, arid feel better for this 

 abstinence. How few people calculate upon the 

 effects of constantly renewed fever in our luxurious 

 system of living in England ! The heart is made to 

 act too powerfully, the blood is thrown upon the 

 nobler parts, and, with the system of wading adopted 

 by some sportsmen, whether in shooting or fishing, is 

 delivered either to the hemorrhoids! veins, or, what is 

 worse, to the head. I have known several free livers, 

 who have terminated their lives by apoplexy, or have 

 been rendered miserable by palsy, in consequence of 

 the joint effects of cold feet and too stimulating a diet; 

 that is to say, as much animal food as they could eat, 

 with a pint or perhaps a bottle of wine per day. Be 

 guided by me, my friends, and neither drink nor wade. 



circumstances the temperature of the last year, the period when the 

 eggs were laid, the heat of the water when they were deposited, and 

 the quantity of rain since. The migration of the solitary snipe is only 

 one link in a great chain of causes and effects, all connected, and 

 extending from Africa to Siberia. 



