HOW TO GET STRONG
dangerous freight—so impeding the working of every vital organ that he is not likely to live to be a really old man. And yet, barring accident and contagion, he can if he will. If he is strong enough to do one thing, namely, what another famous son of Massachusetts once did—Chief Justice Parsons—to conquer an appetite that had wellnigh conquered him—for the judge—an inveterate snuff-taker—in one day said, "No more snuff!" And so strong a man was he, that he kept the snuff-box open and full, before him all the time as he sat on the bench; but no more snuff ever again tickled his judicial nostrils. And if Sullivan is man enough to say, "No more stuff!" and then to never again let a drop of any "stuff" tickle his palate, he can make a citizen of large usefulness, and of probably a long life. If Bismarck could take off 70 pounds after he was seventy years old; what is to hinder Sullivan from doing the same after he is only forty? Popular with all classes—so popular that no other man, walking any street in the United States to-day, will so swiftly drew a large and admiring crowd; then with a year's study of the main elements of the business, what a contractor he would make! With his influence and control over men; their admiration for his courage and prowess, and his sterling honesty of nature; that man, especially with a capable partner, could yet be one of the largest contractors for railroad-grading—and other fields requiring a large force of men at heavy labor in the country; and so a very useful man in the community.
And how do you get a neck—not so grand a one as Sullivan's—for that is denied to most men—but a good one, a fine one for a man of your pounds and inches.
Well, carry a weight on your head daily; such as a
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