The Code of Health and Longevity

ON ATHLETIC EXERCISES. (*^3) 1 »ught to fight at him with our utmoft aftlvity, and to quit the defenfive part of boxing, as that would be only throwing away our fldll to no purpofe, and giving him time to recover himfelf. When we are ourfelves winded by fatigue, we fhould play with our hands to and fro, fight only upon the defenfjve, and if we are ftruck, fall, and lay flat on the ground, till our fecond, if we have one, picks us up, by which means we may regain the powers that we found were failing. ^RAINING HORSES. JLxtraB of a Letter from a Gentleman, dated igth Sep' tember 1806. **WITH regard to the training of horfes, I prefume it is an underftood thing, that they are little the worfe for it, provided they benot begun too early. Were horfes to be run only at four years old, and not fooner, I am assured few would be hurt by it; but you fee by the Racing Ca­ lendar, that they run them often at two years, and fome- times even 2.Syearlings. This, of courfe, is fure deftruc- tion; the great falvation, indeed, of moft of the poor horfes, is their being unable to carry weight as aged horfes, {. e, above feven years old. Of courfe, they are either kept as ftallions, or fold for hunters, poft-horfes, and flage-coaches, or to be eaten by hounds, when of courfe \5ie hear no more of them ; fo that when they come to be inquired after, they are either carefully keptas llallions, ornothing is known aboutthem. And as moft of the ftallions reach a good age, and fome a great one, ergo, it is prefumed, that moft race-horfes live as long as other horfes." NUM.