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ON FRESH AIR. 



comes strong and playful, under the unmitigated 

 inclemency of the falling dews of night. I have 

 here a fine male turkey, full eight years old, 

 and he has not passed a single night in shelter. 

 He roosts in a cherry-tree, and always is in 

 primest health the year throughout, Three 

 dunghill fowls, preferring this cherry-tree to 

 the warm perches in the hen-house, took up 

 their airy quarters with him early in October, 

 and have never gone to any other roosting 

 place. The cow and the horse sleep safely on 

 the cold damp ground, and the roebuck lies 

 down to rest in the heather on the dewy moun- 

 tain's top. I myself can sleep all night long, 

 bareheaded, under the full moon's watry beams, 

 without any fear of danger, and pass the day in 

 wet shoes without catching cold. 



Coughs and colds are generally caught in the 

 transition from an over-heated room to a cold 

 apartment; but there would be no danger in 

 this movement if ventilation were properly at- 

 tended to, — a precaution little thought of 

 now-a-days. We are subject to contract rheu- 

 matism by lying in damp places, and more es- 

 pecially on damp beds. Still many wild animals, 

 whose flesh and blood is of the same nature as 



