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58 straight spines, robust chest, flexible loins, finely rounded shoulders, straight & tapering limbs & small hands & feet are all ideal in character. No better "life-school" could be conceived, the figure no more clothed than decency requires, the little ornament there is contributing to the contrast? of colour & forms, displaying the beautiful curves & changes of the figure to advantage; The models? unconscious of their positions, which vary from the repose of the fatigued victor to the fleet progress of the racer. The figures varying in character expressions & costume. These games continue often for the whole day with slight intermissions for rest, and in the course of this time forty or fifty miles at least must be run, as they easily keep pace with a trotting