HOW TO SWIM.
There is really no mystery in learning _to\ swim-ran accomplishment which is possessed in perfection by the most stupid of froga. More than once I have ex- , .plainedhow any one can teach himself. * "The trunk less the arms, is heavier than water; with the arms, it is lighter; all, therefore, that a person has to do i 9 to acquire the habit.of drawing in the breath when he ia preparing to make a stroke, and expelling the breath when ho is making it. Let any one do this and keep 'calm, and he.will find he can swim. But, perhaps, it is better to acquire confidence by a preliminary course of floating. To do this it is only necessary to lie flat on ""Water, stretch out the arms with the palms of the hands downward, throw back the head, and when-ever the body sinks low, slowly to fill the lungs with air.— London Truth.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4422, 7 March 1883, Page 4
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156HOW TO SWIM. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4422, 7 March 1883, Page 4
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