Miller, Claude Harris, 1875- [from old catalog] · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 261
o show anyapparent motion of the muscles. Swimming on the back is easily learned and isnot only a pretty trick butis very useful in giving usan opportunity to rest on along swim. Diving is also a branch ofswimming that requires con-fidence rather than lessons.A dive is simply a plungehead first… … HOW TO SWIM AND TO CANOE 239 boys have a very expressive though not elegant name.Somersaults and back dives from a stationary take-oflF or from a spring-board are very easily learned.We shall probably have a few hard splashes untilwe learn to turn fully over, but there is not muchdanger of injury…
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