SWIMMING.
The American girl who swam the English Channel recently has a brother ten years old wno can breathe under water. Of course, the thing ie quite simple and was done in Australia once (says a writer in "Aussie.") Never mind the man's name. His reputation of being a human fish had spread far and wide, and a group of people one day gathered at the water's edge to time him. He had agreed to stay under for seven minutes, but when he failed to top the water in ten minutes a diver went down to invee-.
tigate.' There was his nibs with his head in an inverted cask. He was dead. The foul air in the cask on this occasion had not agreed with him.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 252, 23 October 1926, Page 27
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126SWIMMING. Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 252, 23 October 1926, Page 27
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