How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • Blaikie, William, 1843-1904.
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HOW TO GET STRONG AND HOW TO STAY SO CHAPTER I DO WE INHERIT SHAPELY BODIES? In the dainty little park, at the entrance of the lower mile of Broadway, stands the finest statue in all New York. A young school-master,—a Yale man of the class of 1773,—a Connecticut Banger,—who had cut out a provision-ship right from under the eyes of a British man-of-war; arrested and sentenced as a spy; his ankles lashed together; his arms pinioned behind his back; facing death ; yet the clear-cut, brave, superb face in no way showing it; calmly telling his captors words which should be graven upon the wall of every school-room in America,—“I regret that I have hut one life to lose for my country.”* * Nathan Hale “teas a feeble child, and gave little promise of surviving his infancy ; but as he grew up, he became fond of out- door sports, and was famous for his athletic feats.” Dr. Eneas Mun- son, of New Haven, says of him when he was graduated at Yale : “ He was almost six feet in height, perfectly proportioned, and in