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bring on fever ; but if the sweat is so timed that, on 

 being scraped, the water runs freely and profusely 

 before the scraper, no after-mischief is likely to 

 occur, if common care is taken. 



Let two men walk at .their leisure six miles to see 

 two others run a mile match on a burning hot day ; 

 the latter would be probably felt for by many : the 

 feeling would be misplaced, the walkers would 

 suffer most ; the runners, their race over, would be 

 well rubbed, dried, and cooled ; in an hour they 

 would feel light in themselves and spirits, cool and 

 vigorous ; the walkers would feel feverish, dispirited, 

 and jaded for the remainder of the day, and I speak 

 from practical experience. 



Why was not the feeling and sympathy of the 

 fair girl awakened for the posters that brought her ? 

 Simply because she had no conception they suffered 

 in their task ; they had brought her apparently merrily 

 along, she had been accustomed to see the same 

 thing whenever posters were applied to the carriage, 

 and her father's horses only being used for airings, 

 or short journeys at a moderate pace, of course never 



