"The heaviest you have got." He stripped himself of his upper clothing, and set to work, with the heavy weights in each hand, waving them up and down, and backward and forward, in every attainable variety o f movement, till his magnificent muscles seemed on the point of starting through his sleek skin.

Little by little his animal spirits roused themselves.

The strong exertion intoxicated the strong man.

In sheer excitement he swore cheerfully--invoking thunder and lightning, explosion and blood, in return for the compliments profusely paid to him by the pedestrian and the pedestrian's son.

"Pen, ink, and paper!" he roared, when he could use the dumb-bells no longer.