Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 74
unacquainted with swimming,and falling accidentally into the water, could have presenceof mind sufficient to avoid struggling and plunging, and toJet the body take this natural position, he might continuelong safe from drowning, till, perhaps, help should come;fqr, as to the clothes, their… … boys owk book. 65 one, to depend on having this presence of mind on such anoccasion, but learn fairly to swim, as I wish all men weretaught to do in their youth; they would, on many occasions,be the safer for having that skill; and, on many more, thehappier, as free from painful apprehensions of…
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