The Pedestrian's Record

the pedestrian's record. 9 end, act in a distinct and quiet manner ; functional derangements may occur, sudden fright or emotional disturbance may for a time increase or decrease the intensity of their duties, but when in health and quietude the stomach digests its food, the liver secretes its bile, and the heart beats with a regularity which can only be disturbed by excitement or undue exertion. ATHLETIC SPORTS IN ENGLAND. The days of the tournament were numbered when horse-racing commenced in earnest, which occurred during the reignof Charles II., who importedfrom the Levant those celebrated Barbs and Arabs with which he established an equine harem—the cradle of the so-called English thorough-bred. The Stuarts en­ couraged all kind of sports, and among them running and jumping became a common pastime, and that to the present day has flourished less or more ac­ cording to the fluctuations of periods. No doubt the veto imposed upon all kinds of sport by the Roundheads had the effect of giving it a reactionary impetus during the subsequent reign, or perhaps the love of sport so innate with Englishmen, suppressed by Cromwell, only smouldered until a breeze of sensible liberty fanned it into flame. Horses and men raced as they do in our time, not alw-ays for honour but for stakes ; long distances were the order of the