Chapter 5

ATHLETIC SPORTS.

Bathing--a passion for it--a particular swim--Nat the best swimmer--swimming under water--a trial--a game of ball--Nat the best player--the result of the game--remarks of spectators--the fastest runner--a principle to be best--excelled in athletic sports through same elements of character that made him excel in school--the best shoe-black--Reynolds made every picture best--Buxton's sports in boyhood, and Sir Walter Scott's--Wellington's remark--Nat's remark twenty-five years after--Nat saving a boy from drowning--his picture of the scene--how he used his experience in athletic games 48-56