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 in the different ways, in checking, and in dodging, nearly every other muscle in the human frame, and, as in other games of great dexterity, the eye is quickened, brightened to a degree of judgment.

The proof that in a game of hockey every muscle receives its due exercise, is this, that after the first few practices, before he is "in condition," a player feels sore and stiff in every muscle of his body.

Being practically an out-door sport it is exhilarating and healthy, and productive of an absorbing appetite, which latter is borne out by the statement of an hotel keeper who once said that "a hockey team can eat more in a limited time than a team of footballers, or a lacrosse twelve with all their spares and coaches."

Speaking of skating as an exercice, Solzman, in his incomparable work on the subject, says:&mdash;"I am come to an exercise superior to anything that can be classed under the head of motion. I know nothing in gymnastics that displays equal elegance, and it excites such divine pleasure in the mind of the performer that I would recommend it as the most efficacious remedy to the misanthrope and the hypochondriac. Pure air, piercing, bracing cold, the promotion of the circulation of the different fluids of the body, the unalloyed and mental satisfaction of the various skilful movements,