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of my course. The first cures a lot of things, 

 more especially in the autumn ; the second does 

 your garden good as well as the patient ; t'other 

 saves labour and enables one to let off steam as a 

 coach. Pull your dyspepsiamatic out of bed just 

 as the air is warmed enough to grow crisp with- 

 out being too shrewdly ''nipping" and "eager," 

 and make him dig for an hour with a spade, being 

 equipped with strong and moderately tightly-laced 

 stays to ensure squeezing the subject's vitals. A 

 fork is well enough in its v/ay, but does not as a 

 rule move so much earth as t'other agricultural 

 implement. Cause the invalid to do his digging 

 in adapted 'Varsity rowing form, with shoulder- 

 blades flattened back straight all the time, the 

 stoop being done in the fashion of a wooden doll, 

 and no more roundness of shoulders or spine than 

 you can find in a black — or is it back ? — board. 

 Forcing the spade in, levering it, and lifting the 

 mould entails much pressure on the tummy and 

 surprising strain about the small of the back, 

 making fine work for the inward machinery, not 

 to mention the medicinally curative influence 

 coming by means of the freshly-turned earth's 

 cleanly odour. You cure your customer and save 

 paying a gardener wage through this exercise. 



Only four days of digging with a spade into 

 the earth and digging with sculls into the water, 

 and being laced into an elegant figure, made a 

 new man of my experimented-on person, partly, 

 as I believe, because of compelling him to stick 

 to most elaborate 'Varsity high home and easy 

 stomach-straining, hip-tiring, neck-wrenching, 

 fixed-seat form or posturing while performing his 

 labours with the sculls. Then I took him for a 

 cruise on the Ouse (be particular about the 



