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Show SKETCH OF DANIEL BOONE: ,. 1 His Physique Combined Strength and! K Activity. I In his hook, "Tho Way to tho 1 West," Emerson Hough glvos. I sketches of three famous pioneers. Of Daniel Boone ho Bays: "Boone- I was neither n tall nor- a thin man. I Ho was not angular nor bony, His- I framo waB covered not with cloying 1 fat, but with firm and easily playing I muscles, nnd ho carried none of the I useless tissue of the man of clvllla- E tlon. His weight wns 'about 175. I pounds.' Audubon, who met him lato- . I In his life, says; 'Ho npprouched the jj gigantic In Btnture. Ills chost was E broad and prominent and his muscu- 1 lar powers wero visible In every limb. His countenance gavo Indication of fl his great courage, enterprise nnd per- I sevorancc.' Yet In person Boono did 1 not qulto reach tho six-foot mark, fl but was Just below flvo feet and tea 1 Inches in stature, somo say flvo feet - - eight Inches, being thcreroro of ex- ' actly that build which good Judges of men csteom to bo most desirable for combined strength, activity, nnd endurance. en-durance. Ho was rather broad shoul- - y dored; that Is to say, his shoulders' nicely overhung his hips. All agro that he was of 'robust and powerful proportions.' " |