Boys' own book : a complete encyclopedia of athletic, scientific, outdoor, and indoor sports (1881)
Clarke, William, 1800-1838 · New York : J. Miller, Publisher · leaf 81
e was extricated from his perilous situation by ayouth of his own age, who had begun to learn the art ofswimming, but without corks, on precisely the same day asthe lad who was thus in danger of being drowned. Itwould be well, if a string were tied by its middle to eachend of the rope, close to the… … 70 boys owjsr book. THE PLAIfK. The plank is useful in a bath, to perfect the young swim-mer in the manner of properly throwing ont his legs andfeet. A piece of plank, about ten or twelve feet in length,x s«?^S^-^i. two inches thick, ^^m^ and a foot and a half, or two feetbroad, is the bestsize. It…
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