The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 85
in a bath, holding the endrather tight, so as to keep the learner in the most favourableposition for swimming, and prevent his sinking. The pupil must keep his head well back on the shoulders,and the back hollowed, which tends to the inflation of thechest, and gives more buoyancy, and he must at… … DOG FASHION. projecting beam, or crane, working on a centre, and givingway with the movements of the swimmer, or a strong wireis stretched across a large bath, and kept tight with screws ;on this a pulley runs, and to it is attached the wire belongingto the belt, buckled round the learners waist,…
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