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some general and practical rules for keeping your body in health in this country. You should rise early (before sun-rise) in the morning; change your clothes after cleaning your teeth, whether you bathe or not; take a cup of tea or whatever else may suit you, go out for exercise and return before the sun gets hot. Then bathe and take your breakfast at 10 or 11 o'clock. The morning exercise may be riding, shooting, bicycling or walking. If you have to go out a long distance for shooting, you should take some Chotahazri, but it is not necessary for you to take it every day as Europeans do. In the afternoon you may take some tiffin and go out again in the evening. The evening exercise may be tennis, rackets, golf and games like these, or riding and walking or driving. Self-driving is also a good exercise for the chest and the arms. Take your dinner early and go to bed before 11