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coppices, with rivulets meandering through, court the lengthened walk. Exercise is the surest road to health.
" Such is the reward of " active" sober life:
" Of labour such. By health the peasant's toil
" Is well repaid ; if exercise were pain
" Indeed, and temperance pain. By arts like these
" Laconia nurs'd of old her hardy sons ;
" And Rome's unconquer'd legions urg'd their way,
" Unhurt, through every toil in every clime."— Armstrong.
