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stantly command, by being enabled to throw 

 his flies under bushes, and over the most 

 secret retirements of the objects of his amuse- 

 ment. Some persons, it is true, hold out 

 objections to this practice, by bringing to 

 imaginary view rheumatism and agues, in 

 their most dismal colouring, as the conse- 

 quences of such an act ; but, whilst the body 

 is in exercise, little is to be apprehended 

 from these objects of terror. Many instances 

 might be brought forward in corroboration 

 of this assertion, in the persons of men who 

 have followed this practice from youth 

 upwards, and arrived at extreme old age, 

 without having experienced the slightest 

 inconvenience or ill consequences from the 

 daily immersion of their legs. 



To remain long in one station is reprehen- 

 sible ; and it is absolutely necessary to substi- 

 tute dry clothing for such as may have 

 become wet by the operations of the day, 



