The Pedestrian's Record

the pedestrian's record. 21 our professional pedestrians, and among them with fewexceptions are to be found our fastest runners. Such individuals as a rule have not been nursed in the lap of luxury, like the children of the upper ten, neither has their child-life been so carefully attended to, as the sons of the well-to-do middle class. The three sections above mentioned have each equally to be introduced to the cinder-path with strength of body and constitution, which can alone be insured by a well-prescribed dietary system, associated with that due amount of exercise necessary to bring vigour to mind and elasticity to limb. The question arises, what are the means to attain this desirable end ? Certainly not one hard and fast prescription—no two men have exactly the sameconfiguration of feature, neither do they possess similar constitutions. Again one person will eat with pleasure that which another refuses. So it will be seen at the onset of our task we are beset with certain difficulties and rough tracks which can easily be surmounted if only due attention be paid to those hygienic laws by which " life may be preserved, although death cannot ultimately be defeated." We have, as before said, three classes of athletes to deal with, i.e., in general remarks, namely, the one born with a gold spoon well in his fauces. 2. The middle class, who, when arrived at manhood estate or just before, are obliged to enter the Civil Service or some similar vocation in life. 3. The son of the soil, who, as a sapling, enters the lists of manual labour. The first two, in so far as preparation for athletics is con-