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of a man who, if we may be pardoned the egotism, 

 knew just what this book aims to teach, so far as 

 concerns the absolute necessity of plenty of hard and 

 sharp exercise in order (having the stuff to work on) 

 to develop the growing animal in the best possible 

 manner, and having thus developed him, to keep him 

 in condition. There is, in the rearing of colts, occa- 

 sion for the use of much discretion, but nothing is 

 more certain, to my mind, than that many a good 

 horse is spoiled from overfeeding and underworking 

 during the growing stage. He should not be a fat- 

 ling, a soft-shell, during this period, nor ever after, 



THE ONLY WAY TO DO IT. 



Hanlan, the oarsman, v/orks very hard. " I have 

 traveled thirty miles to-day," he is quoted as saying, 

 " and all with my own wind and muscle. I went 

 about twenty of it in my boat, and the rest on my 

 legs. Oh, no ; that is not exceptional. I do as much 

 as that every day, from early in the spring until late 

 in the fall. You see my races are rather frequent, and 

 it is necessary that I should keep myself constantly 

 in perfect condition. I am, therefore, in training all 

 the time. My diet is always as carefully regulated as' 

 though I was to pull a race next day." Hanlan never 

 drinks a drop of alcohol in any fofm. 



FLAT-FOOTED OPINION ABOUT NON-SHOEING. 



H, Reynolds, M.D., of Livermore Falls, Me., writes 

 to the Sun as follows : 



