Cross country with horse and hound . not answer for a moment. Finally hefaltered : * I am going to fall off at the very first fence. Nonsense! said I, reassuringly. With Billy Claffyyou are as safe as if you were in a trundle-bed with yourown mother to rock it. But, sure enough, in jumping over a three-rail fence onthe way to the Hartman flats, off went the guest like aquarter of beef. Co-chug! he landed on the grass in asitting posture, with one foot sticking through his new silkhat. It was about the most laughable sight I ever fall seemed to daze him for a moment; then, recov-ering h
Cross country with horse and hound . not answer for a moment. Finally hefaltered : * I am going to fall off at the very first fence. Nonsense! said I, reassuringly. With Billy Claffyyou are as safe as if you were in a trundle-bed with yourown mother to rock it. But, sure enough, in jumping over a three-rail fence onthe way to the Hartman flats, off went the guest like aquarter of beef. Co-chug! he landed on the grass in asitting posture, with one foot sticking through his new silkhat. It was about the most laughable sight I ever fall seemed to daze him for a moment; then, recov-ering himself, he cried out: Catch my horse ! Here,somebody I I say, there, catch my horse ! Billy Claffy, all the while, was not the length of himselfaway, quietly eating grass. This was the end, so far as Iever knew, of this gentlemans riding. It was a case offunk that reached collapse, and all for want of a littlepreparation. In another field of sport we see similar cases every yearin the woods of Maine and Canada. The typical city man. Courage vs. Funk 153 goes shooting, following, or trying to follow, a guide overrough ground, when he has not walked more than quarteror half of a mile a day for a year. When he comes homehe has a fit of sickness and is more in need of a vacationthan when he started. How shall you prepare yourself? First shut down a bit,if not altogether, on tobacco and liquors. Take one Turk-ish bath, or possibly two, a week, if you are carrying toomuch fat. Begin with Indian clubs or dumb-bells athome, if you cannot go regularly to a gymnasium, and workmoderately, say for one hour, with frequent resting andafterward a cold spray before you go to bed. Repeat theexercise and shower next morning before dressing for theday. Increase the exercise until you can do two hours atnight and at least one in the morning, and in addition walkto your office, or as much of the way as possible, and backagain. For the reasons already given in the chapter on Seat, in the passages sp
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