The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 85
rong 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, the cord in thiscase being attached at the back, as in Fig. 6. This contrivance (than which nothing can be more… … THE SIDE STROKE. Now that swimming has become to be considered a necessarypart of every boys education in those public schools thathave any water within reach, this simple apparatus willprove the more useful, as it supersedes the necessity of beingtaught in a large space of water, which may not…
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