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menl to alter their slow habits. A countryman 

 with his present habits is unfitted for any pur- 

 pose but the one he is at, should even necessity, 

 convenience, or interest point out to him some 

 other, and he ever remains the inactive, igno- 

 rant lout we see him — unless, indeed, he enlists, 

 then we find that though his slow habits render 

 it a work of time he can be figuratively like 

 the cart horse, be made to trot, and a very 

 different animal both man and beast show them- 

 selves to what they were with their former 

 habits. A healthy, active, lively young fellow 

 from the country would be available, nay, sought 

 for, for many purposes to which he is now unfit. 

 We find he is to be made this as a soldier, 

 from coercion, he might be made so from incli- 

 nation and habit, if temptation in the shape of 

 amusement, emulation, and reward were held out 

 to him. It may be said there is cricket if he 

 wishes to engage in active amusement ; granted 

 there is so, but Hodge is not to be roused from 



