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 every muscle, after a good, hard game. Exercises that aid in enlarging and hardening the muscles, in the arms, back, chest and stomach, are specially recommended. The legs are quickly brought into condition by skating and walking.

In developing the wind a punching bag is the most efficient exercise, Skipping, too, is most beneficial, because it develops the muscles in the legs and increases the wind.

It is, perhaps, advisable to give up smoking. A cigar or a pipe occasionally can cause but little injury to a man, but cigarettes are decidedly injurious. The following extract, borrowed from a newspaper, illustrates the above:

"This was actually heard in the Cracker district of Tennessee:

"The mother shouted from the door of the cabin behind the trees,&mdash;

" 'Yank Tysan! Zeb Tysan! what yu'uns doin'?'

" Two little boys raised their kinky heads over a barrel three hundred yards down the mountain:

" 'Foolin',' was the reply.

" 'Be yu'uns smokin'?'

" 'Ye'um.'

" 'Be yu'uns chawin' twist and smokin' cob-pipe?'

" 'Ye'um'.'

" 'Thet's a'right. But if yo' let me kotch yo' smokin' them cigareets, I'll gi' yo' the wust lammin' yo' ever hed in yo' lives. Yo' heah yo' ma?'

" 'Ye'um.'"

As smoking even in ordinary life is, to a certain extent, an injury to a man, it is not necessary to further mention it.