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produces the blood. The stomach needs exercise to eep 

 it healthy as much as the limbs. Every one recognizes 

 the fact that unless the growing animal has an opportu- 

 nity to work them they will shrink away, but think that 

 by making the colt "rough it" it will be hardier and more 

 serviceable when its work is needed. However, the 

 question of food will present itself as your horses are put 

 in train, when we will discuss it in all its bearings. 



PUPIL. No doubt it will be as important as anything 

 there is for me to learn. 



Here is a cigar, which I will vouch for as being one of 

 the best. I had it in a present from a friend who delights in 

 keeping the best specimens of the Virginia weed. From 

 long habit I prefer the pipe. The same kind friend al- 

 ways keeps me supplied with the most fragrant killi- 

 kinick, which he superintends the manufacture of him- 

 self, selecting the very finest specimens of leaf, and is as 

 scrupulously careful in the process of making and flavor- 

 ing, as the old alchemists were in the preparation of the 

 elixir of life. If he were still in business I would be 

 tempted to give his address, so that all genial lovers of 

 the tranquillizing herb would know where to get their 

 supplies. 



My fondness for a pipe was acquired by living in the 

 woods through the summer. For many years I was en- 

 gaged in surveying the mountainous section of Pennsyl- 

 vania, where,' twenty years ago, there were unbroken 

 forests twenty miles in extent. For weeks we would 

 never enter a house, but camp where night overtook us. 

 The camping-ground was generally selected by the side 

 of a swift running brook or crystal spring. Our supper 

 ended, of speckled trout or venison broiled on a stick, 

 with, plenty of strong coffee that had a finer aroma than 

 ever Turcoman drank on tapestried divan. The bed is 

 made of the fine boughs of the hemlock ; piled so high 



