Swimming

Most animals can swim right off the first time they go into the water. Dogs, horses, deer and buffaloes do not have to be taught to swim. But a man cannot swim until he learns how to swim. Some one who knows has to show him how it is done. Everybody should know how to swim. And it is best to learn when we are young. A young boy or a girl can learn more quickly than a grown-up person. Yet many people cannot swim at all. They say that even some sailors, who pass all their life on the sea, do not know how to swim. Then why should they learn to swim. We should learn swimming: Firstly, because swimming is a good exercise. Indeed doctors say that it is best exercise, because in swimming all the muscles of the body are used. Secondly, swimming gives great pleasure. How nice it is , on a hot dusty day in summer, to take off one’s clothes and plunge into the cool water of a river, a sea or one’s own swimming pool, and to dive and swim and float until one is tired! Thirdly, swimming may sometimes mean all the difference between life and death. We never know when we are in danger from water. We go on a voyage, and the ship is wrecked; for a pleasure sail in a lake, and the boat upsets; we slip as we are walking along the bank of a river, and fall into the river. If we can swim, we have a chance to save our life; but if we cannot swim, we are pretty curtained to be drowned. So for our safety, we should learn to swim. Lastly, if we can swim, we may be able to save other people from drowning. How fine it is to save other’s life! How sad to our friend drowning before our eyes, when we cannot help him, because we cannot swim.