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‘POETRY.’

CHAPTER XII.

TRAINING,

DIET.

Tat ‘condition’ tells in all contests, whether in brain labours such as chess matches or in athletics, is known to children in the schoolroom,

‘Training is the régae by means of which condition is attained. ts dogmas are of two orders: (1) Those which relate to exercise, (2) those which refer to diet. Diet of itself dees not train a man for rowing or any other kind of athletics. What trains is hard work ; proper diet keeps the subject up to that work.

The effect of a course of training is twofold. It develops