Forest and stream . tifully provided with patent life saving campstools,seats, basins, hassocks, hen coops, buckets, hatches, etc., while beloware life-saving cushions and mattresses galore, when suddenly therearises urgent need of these supposed means of safety. Imagine, too,that there ia absence of panic, and therefore the women and^those men who cannot swim are first thought of, and each has one of thesevarious life-preservers lashed to them in the manner which seemsbest to those who undertake the office, viz., either at one side, infront or behind. The vessel then sinks or goes to pieces,
Forest and stream . tifully provided with patent life saving campstools,seats, basins, hassocks, hen coops, buckets, hatches, etc., while beloware life-saving cushions and mattresses galore, when suddenly therearises urgent need of these supposed means of safety. Imagine, too,that there ia absence of panic, and therefore the women and^those men who cannot swim are first thought of, and each has one of thesevarious life-preservers lashed to them in the manner which seemsbest to those who undertake the office, viz., either at one side, infront or behind. The vessel then sinks or goes to pieces, and theyare all left floating about, it is true, but with slender chances of sur-viving the first ten minutes. A swimmer could manage fairly well instill water, whether the float was lashed back or front; if at one side,he deserves greater sympathy; although he might prefer being with-out either, and more especially the latter. We have only to look atthe three next figures to see how the non-swimmer would fare under. Fig. 4. these trying circumstances. To any one altogether unused to thewater, it would ma~ter very little under which arm the float is lashed,tor he will very soon Fig. 5, we see how, after fruitless and desperate efforts to
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