Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 76
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 danger, tosay nothing of… … PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS. ENTERING THE WATER. Our young pupil must not, at first, venture into the waterin the bold and dashing manner of experienced swimmers.He must wait patiently until he can do so without danger.Let him remember that there has been a time when the bestswimmer alive, tottered,…
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