...streets of nineteenth-century London. Examine Theodore Gericault's masterpiece, "Pity the Sorrows of a poor old man whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door." I experience no affinity to any of the Boulder factions. I refuse to make health and fitness a religion....

...using the slightly shorter (and less political) version of 1769, which begins: Pity the sorrows of a poor old man! Whose trembling limbs have borne him...give relief — and heaven will bless your store. This episode remained permanently fixed in Cooper's memory. When, as late as 1850, he met octogenarian...