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Show Animals as Swimmers. ' Xenrly ail animals are good swim nrcro. and take to the water natural-h'. natural-h'. vhere.3 nian must learn to keep tilloot and to propol himself. Many etories are told of t'ne feats of rhinoceros, el( and deer, but o all nwimim rs in all climes the best, although al-though not the Ewiftest, Is the polar bear, v, no passes half his time In the water swimming and diving. Tho bear's swimming power la wonderful, and it is to be reruem-' bered that the water In some of h!-j regions is invariably cold, and that cold water is ordinarily very dis-ccuraeing dis-ccuraeing to a swlmnfer. There are) bears that can swim thirty miles or more wirhout especial effort. One of tho swiftest of swlmmln-f animals Is the squirrel. A sportsman sports-man on one occasion, having a young squirrel that had never soert water, wanted to see If it could swim, and took It with him In a rowboat to the centre of the lake. When the squirrel was put into th water it turned toward the bank, head and paws above the water, back and tail underneath it, and besrnn to swim so rapidly that th m:n had hard work to recover lc when it reached the shallow water near the land. |