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Taking Exercise

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
November
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Poor Harry Sbelmau, the loug baired poet vrho dressed Iris entire person to retemblé Buiïalo Bill, and who was, in fact, startlingly like the greatest of syouts, used to teil me of a literary friend of his who had a noyel method of taking exercise. His workshop was on the top fioor of his house, far froin he noise of the street, aud he used to write about 1 5 hours a day. He was uot a Howells or a Broiison Howard, whose workiug hours never exceed fovir in any oue day. He worked, he labored, he toiled. He had no time for a bicyole aud could not afford a horse. He hated walking. Run he could not. Swimmiug Mas out or tne question. stili he must have exercise. He kepthis dietiouary in the basement and his thesaurus in the kitchen. As he used both very ofteu it was uecessary to make mariy trips down stairs and up again, and in that way he kept himself in splendid physioal condition. A visitor once saw him dashing down stairs like a madrnan and soaring np again like a kite and was distressed till informed by John 's wife that John was simply hunting for a word and had found

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News