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then cut or bruise your 'tendo-Achillis,' or back-sinew, provided 

 you secure the pad firmly by putting it over your common stock- 

 ing and under your yarn stocking." 



CORNS. 



As writers on sporting-subjects, even those of the highest rank 

 in this department of literature, have deigned to speak upon the 

 subject of corns, it may not be deemed amiss in us to follow the 

 precedent, although we may not be able to add much that is new 

 upon the subject. 



A corn is nothing more than a portion of hardened cuticle, 

 generally produced by the pressure of the boot, or of one toe 

 against another. Those formed by the latter cause are usually 

 the most painful and difficult to be treated, as they are situated 

 between the toes; and it requires much management to relieve 

 the pressure sufficiently long to effect a cure, so long as the sufferer 

 is obliged to incase his foot in a boot. 



These formations on the feet are called corns, from the circum- 

 stance that a piece can be picked out very like a corn of barley, 

 which fact no doubt many of our readers who are troubled in this 

 way have observed. The curing of corns, in these modern days 

 of improvement and charlatanism, has been promoted into a science 

 by some few pretending worthies who have sprung into existence 

 from the Lord knows where, and taken to themselves tho high- 

 sounding title of chiropodist to his or her majesty's big toe, we 



