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the happiness I experience^ for there are few 

 feelings so cheering to the spirits as those of 

 constant good health and vigor. But^ alas! there 

 is something in which I cannot imitate these 

 happy .old people^ and that is I have not heen 

 accustomed to all this from my youth. Oh! that 

 I were young again that I might imitate them 

 in all things; that I niight be happy and long- 

 lived as they were. 



Little children who read this, you are the 

 fortunate ones who are able to adopt in perfec- 

 tion this kind of life. What then prevents 

 your living henceforward as healthful and hap- 

 pyly as the old woman of Stockholm or as long 

 and useful as the old men of London and St. 

 Petersburg. 



