Why not try sailing?
Nothing oxygenates the lungs like a sail, and your friends the fishermen would be delighted to have you as super-cargo.

They are always full of your stories to them, and your picking their brains for old legends and adventures." "They are noble fellows, and I want no better company; but, unfortunately, I am always sea-sick." "Ah! wholesome, but unpleasant: you are fond of gardening ?" "Very; but stooping makes my head swim." "True, and I don't want you to stoop.

I hope to see you soon as erect as a Guardsman.

Why not try walks ?" "Abominable bores--lonely, aimless--" "Well, perhaps you're right.

I never knew but three men who took long constitutionals on principle, and two of them were cracked.