right after school.]

What fun swimming is! You can learn easily if you have a safe place
and an older person to teach you the stroke. You can roll over on your
back in the water, and float, and dive; but you must not stay in
longer than twenty minutes, and not so long as that sometimes. As soon
as you begin to feel chilly, come out. Swimming not only cleans your
skin, but is splendid exercise for your lungs and muscles.

All this play out of doors will help your appetite, and that will make
you ready to eat the right kind of food, and this food will get into
your blood and keep your muscles firm and strong.

[Illustration: SPLENDID EXERCISE FOR LUNGS AND MUSCLES]


II. ACCIDENTS

I am going to tell you what to do in the case of some of the little
accidents that may happen to anyone, and especially of the kind that
children meet with in playing; but I don't want you to stop playing
for fear you'll be hurt. Mother Nature can usually heal all the bumps
and cuts and scratches that come from wholesome play.

You can, however, help her very much by keeping the _scratch_ or _cut
perfectly clean_. This is the chief thing to remember. Wash it
thoroughly in clean water. Hold it under the pump, or faucet, and let
the water pour down on it.

If you can, pour some _antiseptic_, or germ killer, over the cut, and