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Outdoors is the best antiseptic

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Outdoors is the best antiseptic yet.—What a charm there is about in men that have lived mainly [cut away] the open air—among horses—at sea—on the canals—digging clams—cutting timber timberersrafting, rafters, or steamboating.ers, or house framers of houses,—and mechanics generally.Cleanerly shaved and more grammatical folks I call Mister, and lay the tips of my fingers inside their elbows as after the orthodox fashion, and discuss whatever had the biggest headline in the morning papers, and pass the time as comfortably as the law allows.—But for the others, my arm leans over their shoulders, and around their necks.—In them nature justifies herself;—and In in tTheir indefinable excellence giving gives us out something as superior to all much above beyond the ^special productions of colleges and pews and parlors as the morning air of the prairie or the sea-shore outsmells the costliest scents of the perfume shop.

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