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 age run. But, had he been always used to running—not fast, but steady running—it would not seem so. Tom Brown of Rugby, in the hares-and-hounds game, of which he gives us so graphic an account, makes both the hares and hounds cover a distance of nine miles without being much the worse for it; and yet they were simply school-boys, of all ages from twelve to eighteen. We too have now and then hares and a pack of hounds; but not many.

Let him who thinks that the average American boy of the same age would have fared as well, go down to the public bath-house; and look at a hundred or two of them as they tumble about in the water. He will see more big heads and slim necks; more poor legs and skinny arms; and lanky, half-built bodies than he would have thought the town could produce. He need not see them stripped. One of our leading metropolitan journals, in an editorial headed, "Give the Boy a Chance," said:

This was years ago. But is it not true to-day?

Take a tape-measure and get the girth of chest; upper and fore arm; of waist, hips, thighs, and calves of these little fellows; or of those of the school nearest your