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On the other hand, if we consider the work each is required to do in his daily routine, we can, so far as the setting-up exercises are concerned, bring the two points nearer together, especially if we regard these setting-up exercises in the proper light a mere preparation for the more onerous tasks that are to follow.
To this purpose our old back nursery was forthwith allocated. The craft which we desired was a canoe that would enable us to paddle or drift along the deep channels of the river, and allow us to steal upon the flocks of birds feeding at the edges. Often in memory I enjoy those days again the planning, the modelling, the fitting, the setting-up, and at last, the visit of inspection of our parents.
"You are Christians," she said to a little crowd that gathered round her one day, while she was watching the setting-up of a new door. "You shall live like Christians. When you have been clean for a month, you will never wish to be dirty again." "That is true," answered an old man, shaking his head thoughtfully. "But, in the name of God, who has ever thought of these things?
The ordinary system of setting-up exercises has been growing out of favor for some time. Athletic trainers have come to look with considerable suspicion upon the gymnasium-made candidate with big biceps and large knots of muscles.
And wherever you go you see the young men by the thousands marching, drilling, going through setting-up exercises. The public parks, golf- links, even private parks like Bedford Square, are filled with them, and in Green Park, facing the long beds of geraniums, are lines of cavalry horses and the khaki tents of the troopers. Every one is helping.
It was also a turning-point in the modern history of England. The violence of the reaction against the principles of the French Revolution had spent itself, and the public mind of this country was beginning to see that the turbulence of democracy was not likely to be safely dealt with by the setting-up of despotism.
"They prefer philosophy to be a gentle intellectual setting-up exercise. Their elevated thoughts are carefully unrelated either to the crudity of outward action or to any scourging inner discipline!" Master stressed on other occasions the futility of mere book learning. "Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary," he remarked.
This necessitated setting-up the instrument every few feet during the steepest part of the ascent. They saw nothing of Gowan, who had chosen a more roundabout but easier trail. At midmorning, however, they were overtaken by Genevieve and Isobel and Thomas Herbert Vincent Leslie Blake. Knowles had started for Stockchute to seek the aid of the sheriff and his Indian prisoners.
Into the presence especially of those seated figures, commonly called the Fates, we habitually bring our arts for sentence. He lent an effectual hand to the setting-up of that Tribunal of headless stones.
Finding himself somewhat chilled and cramped Prescott began to go briskly through some of the Army setting-up exercises. "That is a fine thing to warm the blood," said one of the French officers, "but I warn you that it will make you hungry." The other French officers now came forward to make themselves known to the only American officer in this prison camp. "We are moving to-day," said one.
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