[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The walking . powers
of children are not often tested to their utmost extent, but they would seem to be greater than the writer of the article in the Spectator of May 3rd is inclined to admit. I once took part in an excursion which involved a walk of sixteen miles and a climb of over sixteen hundred feet, where one member of the party was a small Swiss boy of five years old. To keep pace with the rest of us it was necessary for him to trot rather than walk, but at the end of the day he hardly betrayed any signs of fatigue. I may add that his parents appeared to have no misgivings about his joining the party on the grounds that the excursion was too long. The writer of the article only bases part of his argument on the limits of a child's physical capabilities, but the case just quoted would seem to weaken this portion of his theory.—I [We have received a great many interesting stories of the endurance of little children, and of the tendency of human beings when lost to wander uphill, but can only find space for the alio, e.—En. Spectator.]
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