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Show GREAT MEN AS PEDESTRIANS Writers and Others of World-Wide i Fame Who Were Fond of Long J Jaunts on Foot. j "There have been some famous pe-idestrians, pe-idestrians, with the emphasis on the 'word famous. Charles Dickens was a f great walker. 'Twelve, fifteen, even .twenty miles a day were none too much for, Dickens . . . swinging i his blackthorn stick, his little figure : sprang over the ground, and it took a practiced pair of legs to keep alongside along-side of his voice.' He once did 'a special feat of turning out of bed at two, after a hard day, pedestrian and otherwise, and walking thirty miles Into the country before breakfast.' Sir Walter Scott 'walked twenty or thirty miles without fatigue, notwithstanding notwith-standing his limp.' Browning, when past seventy, could take long walks without fatigue, and Wordsworth at sixty did twenty miles a day. De Quincey considered fourteen miles a day necessary to his health, and Lamb, notwithstanding his 'almost immaterial immate-rial legs,' 'could walk during all tho day.' Brahms was a tireless pedestrian, pedes-trian, and Beethoven always took his daily walk or 'run of fivo or more miles in all manner of weathers, while Turner traveled twenty miles a day, sketching as he walked. Herbert Her-bert Spencer, at thirteen, in a fit of homesickness,' walked forty-eight miles one day and forty-seven the next; but was probably injured in so doing. Tolstoi, . at fifty-eight, walked 130 miles In three days. Great men are usually of powerful physique, and many of us would suffer if we emulated emu-lated their walking habits, but they nave not all boon so vigorous. Im-manuel Im-manuel Kant walkod for at least an hour every day, but doubtless Bacon or Locke, Chopin or Weber, Spinoza or Calvin, who were none of them In good health, would have found a walk of a mile or two quite sufficient or even too much." St. Nicholas. |