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 a sound flogging every day or two! This old Roman writer tells us that in his day the slave dealers whipped their chattels soundly, so as to get them in fine, plump condition for the market. Then, too, it was so much cheaper than mutton and corn! "No doubt," says Dr. John Bell, in his work on Beauty, "such flagellation tends to increase the circulation at the surface, and give tone to languid muscles;" but no one need be afraid that we are proposing to recommend it.