To make the body strong required thought and care.

Mere riding and running and swinging of the ax will not develop every muscle.

Here Pierre works every day.
His teachers of boxing and wrestling have abandoned him." There was almost a smile on the lean face.
"The last man left with a swollen jaw and limping on one leg." Here he opened the door, and they slipped inside.

The air was warmed by a big stove, and the room--for the afternoon was dark--lighted by two swinging lanterns suspended from the low roof.

By that illumination Father Anthony saw two men stripped naked, save for a loincloth, and circling each other slowly in the center of a ring which was fenced in with ropes and floored with a padded mat.
Of the two wrestlers, one was a veritable giant, swarthy of skin, hairy-chested.