Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1882-02-10
How to Run.


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But, stop moment. don't mean
that most boys can't run fast-I mean
they can't run far. l don't believe
there is one boy in fifty, of those who
may read this, who can run a quarter
of a mile at good smart pace without
having to blow like porpoise by the
time he has made his distance. And
how many boys are there who can run,
fast or slow, full mile without stop
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1t hardly speaks well for our race,
does it, that almost any animal in cre-
alton that pretends to run at all can
outrun any of us?
Take the smallest terrier-dog you can
find, that is sound and not puppy,
and try race with him. He'll beat
you badly. He'll run third faster
than you can, and ten times as far, and
this with legs not more than six inches
long. l have a hound so active that
he always runs at least seventy-five
miles when l stay day in the woods
with him; for he certainly runs more
than seven miles an hour, and if / am
gone ten hours, you see he must travel
about seventy-6ve miles of distance.
And then, good hound will sometimes
follow fox for two days and nights
without stopping. going more than
three hundred and fifty miles, and he
will do it without eating or sleeping.
Then, you may have heard how some
of the runners in the South African
tribes will run for long distances
hundreds of miles-carrving dispatch
es, and making very few stops.
L make these comparisons to show
that our boys who can not run mile
without being badly winded are very
poor runners.
But believe l can tell the boys
something that will help them to run
better. l was pretty old boy when
l first found it out, but the first time l
tried it l ran mile and quarter at
one dash, and was not weary nor
blown. And now Fm going to give
you the secret:
Breathe through your nose!
l had been thinking what poor run
ners we are, and wondering why the
animals can run SO far, and it came to
me that perhaps this might account for
the difference, that they always take air
through the nose, while we usually be-
gin to puff through our mouths before
we have gone many rods. Some ami
mails, such as the dog and the fox, do
open their mouths and pant while run
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selves, and not because they can not
get air enough through their noses.
found once. through sad expert
ence with a pet dog, that dogs must
die if their nostrils become stopped.
They will breathe through the mouth
only while it is forcibly held open; if
left to themselves they always breathe
through the nose.
So, possibly, we are intended to take
all our breath through the nose, unless
necessity drives us to breathe through
the mouth.
There are many other reasons why
we ought to make our noses furnish
all the air to our lungs. One is, the
nose is filled with little forest of hair.
which is always kept moist, like all
the inner surfaces of the nose, and
particles Of dust that would otherwise
rush into the lungs and make trouble,
are caught and kept out by this little
hairy network. Then the passages of
the nose are longer, and smaller, and
more crooked than that Of the mouth,
SO that as it passes through them the
air becomes warm. But these are only
few reasons why the nose ought not
TO be switched off and left idle, as so
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