The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-01-29 00:00:00

THE KEEPER.

Proud, and not without resent, of his vigour and
lhe will tall that though between flf.q and
etirmtcytk you
still rtop briskly through • heavy tield-day,
despite the weight of raem-re ammunition he carries. He
can keep on his feet without fatigue from mons tan rye,
and go his rounds withont abating one inch of &hi
distance, In one thing alone be feels hie
_years --f.e.,
pace, and when "young maeter.- who is a dieedpie of tin.
modern athletic school, come out, it is about as much as
ever he one do to keep up with him over the stubble.
Never once for the last thirty years has he tossed an a bed
of never one. has he failed to nee from his
slumlabsclireshed and ready for his labour. His secret
is-but let him tell it in his own words-" It's indrawn, sir, win hey the people. Being indoors three por of ts the
ray and next to that taking too muck drink and Titania
Eating s es hid es drinking, and there ain't nothing like
fresh air Lod the smell of the woods. You should come
not bete in the spring, when the oak timberis throwed
(t;eoenee you eel, the sap he Anat., and the bark strips
them), end join .it down on • stick fresh pealed-I means
bunk you know-nest mid up the scent of that there
old bark. It goes right down your throat and •
eon, lungs oaths tan do leather. And rve h say as
low who work in the tan yard never hare no illness
There's always a smell from trees dead or living. I could
tell what wood • log was in the dark he MY nose. and the
air, is bettor where the woods be. The ladles up in the
met bowie sometimes goes out into the do plantations-
the turoeutime wants strong. You see-and they eay itle
good for the chest, but blest you, you inui no. in In,
people go abroad, I'm told, to live in the pine fonist to
cure elm I say these bear oaks has got every bit as much
good in that way. I never eat but two mode a•g"....
breakfast and supper, what you would cell dinner-and
may he in the middle of the day a hunch of dry bread and
an ark I take a deal for brealdart, and rather lees )at supper, but you may lay your oath that'.
=sr what lam in the way of hettl,_th. People stuff
yes, and byettlieegattite. it Weltlft Out, 7011 MIL
It's the same with cattle. They're overfe4 tied up ha stalls and stuffed, and never no
food too. It stands to mess get
that'. the real cause of she.. here Andalusite. end
yoneumonia, end whet-nots. At least thee; en. now..
I'm in the woods all day and never um. hoes. un
=n.pe In . brnsain, Welk to (etch the meal and
Li* hirde.-10 I gets the froth Mr you OK Ned
the fresh air is the life,slr. Theinis the mak of the milk
' too__• just as the ;dough turn' It %IP-which si
'an. end the hedittaxi...the igrasa am as sweaty%
' sow after a shown% With • Qom
thing, doom uon ie.—firiru want to live let& I /Wee *Ma SO AAP, and if • man eau eta b gbies of ale I never rye klm no Ess I abet sag oo born:
at how end all the time rws how to this hers plea I've war tem to a pubildhoues. Gentimeen ine
of course they dose. ehti modi obliged I be,lot I takes it to my minas. ILuty's the time they've said to have
of diempew cc brandy when we've had Mockm:nder tha, Ws% but I way no, sad would like • pieee **
which I gets of course. kio, when I drie*-. I4*.k.;:r.
_but most in mural I drinks no strone Lettor. Orem coat i-cold wombs*. I I DOM pot no meat mat on UM
thirty year. Them Ws woods to !Owed ose towooo
cold wombat. Cocoa MY the span held with the east wind 1
ousting into you and pat inside the, An and you'll feel wino in a minute. If You Pie Into the ash wood 704
mot po In farther, became the wind owes mongritisitslm
ths palm Trask air. exercise. iroW fee 4 •Mfi
War el ths wilt sad the Wes -wee keee give.
as he kis L"'stith year, the stesairth end Them*
arty manood.