Outdoor Sports and Games. Claude Harris Miller
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Claude Harris Miller
Outdoor Sports and Games
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664569738
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
A Boy's Camp A Child's May-day Party Fishing is the One Sport of Our Childhood that Holds Our Interest Through Life The Moth Collector and His Outfit The Exciting Sport of Ski-running Swimming is One of the Best Outdoor Sports In Canoeing Against the Current in Swift Streams a Pole is Used in Place of the Paddle Photographs of Tennis Strokes Taken in Actual Play How an Expert Plays Golf
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INTRODUCTORY
The human body a perfect machine—How to keep well—Outdoor sleeping—Exercise and play—Smoking—Walking
Suppose you should wake up Christmas morning and find yourself to be the owner of a bicycle. It is a brand-new wheel and everything is in perfect working order. The bearings are well oiled, the nickel is bright and shiny and it is all tuned up and ready for use. If you are a careful, sensible boy you can have fun with it for a long time until finally, like the "One Hoss Shay" in the poem, it wears out and goes to pieces all at once. On the other hand, if you are careless or indifferent or lazy you may allow the machine to get out of order or to become rusty from disuse, or perhaps when a nut works loose you neglect it and have a breakdown on the road, or you may forget to oil the bearings and in a short time they begin to squeak and wear. If you are another kind of a boy, you may be careful enough about oiling and cleaning the wheel, but you may also be reckless and head—strong and will jump over curbstones and gutters