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Show The Walk ol the Farmer. It is well jiown that country folk, from being so constantly on their feet, are usually blessed with understandings of more generous proportions than those l of their city cousins, who, tempted by the facilities for rapid transit, too eftMi deny themselves sufficient exercise, Thia ( "BpptoMnTre)mauJuTuTI7Tu, mo men."' I have seen some country bred maidens ' with the neatest, slendorest and most X dapper little foet in the world. Bnt then 7 they don't plow from dawn to aunsetA As a rule, however, a countryman 'cam be detected in a city by the size of hut V. extremities. ' Following the plow, too, naturally induces in-duces a jerkiness of gait a peculiar uncertainty un-certainty about the body's motion, which only a long residence in a city can entirely en-tirely remove. In the man from the districts where the land is still very rough theso marks of his calling are accentuated. ac-centuated. Where the land is full of bnrnt stumps and rocks plowing requires considerable strength and more 6kill, and the continual "braoing up of the plow in the furrows has a tendency to make tho farmer get into the habit of walking with his legs wide apart, as in this position he obtains greater control con-trol over the plow and maintains his equilibrium. Detroit Free Press. |