Even in our own Army, which is expanding so rapidly, the same thing is possible, even probable. I have left my beautiful France and come here to this foggy London to aid this flat-footed _homme de bout_, Dawson, in his researches. The ships' carpenters, he explained, could make the changes while the dummies were coming round to Plymouth. Though he has been with us for sixteen years, he did come originally from somewhere in the East. I have forty miles of coast to watch, and I do it all with Boy Scouts like this one. On all the limbs are fixed two sets of muscles; one to extend, the other to draw up or bend the limb. The evil, however, of suffering the child to have the bottle when it pleases is, that he will thus be tasting food so often as to interfere with and disturb the process of digestion, to his great and lasting injury.
There is said to be a miserly farmer--a single gentleman--in the western part of the state of Massachusetts, who has lived on nothing but apples for his food, and water for his drink, about forty years. And it is, to my own mind, one of the most striking proofs of Infinite Wisdom in the creation of the human mind, that it has, during infancy, such an irresistible tendency to amusement.