They might have "gone in" at their own beach in the cove, but the rocks around that corner were jagged, and Mackey decided it would be better to take the dives from the regular springboard off the landing.
Which I never does try it none; but I supposes that all you has to do is hit the springboard an' let the springboard do the rest.
They will ignite instantly, if, when preparing them for the evening, you dip the top in spirits of wine, shortly before they are wanted.
Illustration: A Springboard for Use in Connection with a Vaulting Pole or for Turning Acts] The crosspiece at the rear is cut on the angle of the springboard.
This springboard will be of use in connection with a back-yard gymnasium for vaulting and doing turning acts.
It is necessary to have a good brace across the boat for the back end of the springboard to catch on--a 2 by 4-in.
Illustration: Parts of Tin Cans Fastened to a Board for Holding Milk Bottles] A Springboard Select straight-grained hickory or ash for the springboards.
The butt ends of the springboard should be well fastened to the crosspiece with screws, or, better still, small carriage bolts with the nuts on the under side.
At the point where the springboard rests on the front seat there should be another good-sized crosspiece.
A little diving platform is attached on the outer end of the springboard and a strip of old carpet or gunny sack placed on it to prevent slivers from running into the flesh.
Painted clowns were keeping the audience in a roar by their funny leaps from the springboard to the mat, while the supple acrobats were doing doubles and singles through the air, landing gracefully on the mat as a round off.
I did a turn off the springboard this afternoon with the 'mechanic on,' " meaning the harness used to instruct beginners in the art of tumbling.
Two were placed in front of the springboard and over these a stream of gaudily attired clowns dived, doing a turn in the air as they passed.
Sahwah waved her arm as a signal that she understood, and then stood motionless, her eyes fixed on the shadow of the springboard on the water, watching to see which canoe would cross it first.
Choosing the instant when the second canoe was directly beneath her, Sahwah jumped from the springboard and landed neatly in the bow, upsetting the craft and dumping the girls into the lake.
She stood out on the end of the low springboard a long time trying to make up her mind to go off, and finally shrank back, thoroughly disgusted with herself, but unable to bring herself to make the leap.
When Undine also went off the highest springboard backward, and in addition turned a complete somersault before she touched the water, Sahwah realized that she had met her match, if not her master.
Sahwah, burning with impatience to show her skill, climbed nimbly up to the very top of the tower and went off the highest springboard in a neat back dive that drew applause from the watchers, including Miss Armstrong.
Besides the diving tower, there was a floating dock anchored out in midstream, having a springboard at either end.
Springboard for Swimmers [237] A goodspringboard adds much to the fun of swimming.
The accompanying sketch shows the method of constructing a springboard that does not depend upon the bending of the wood for its spring.
Tom and Harry were seated on a mountain springboard wagon drawn by a pair of thin horses.
The axles and springs of the springboard wagon were making noise enough to keep their voices from reaching the ears of any human being more than a dozen feet away.
He dragged himself up on the springboard dripping and spluttering, and clutching this latest memento of his submarine explorations.
A group of scouts, weary of diving, were strung along the springboard which overhung the shore.
At first Lilienthal used to experiment by jumping off a springboard with a good run.
By this time Lilienthal had moved from his springboard to a conical artificial hill which he had had thrown up on level ground at Grosse Lichterfelde, near Berlin.
A shout and a laugh and a sudden splash, sounding faint in the distance, told him that some uninitiated new arrivals were diving from the springboard before breakfast.
He attended to getting the licenses for the two launches and sent a letter up to old Uncle Jeb telling him to have a newspringboard put up and notifying him that the woods property now belonged to the camp.
Black Lake was just an irregular circle, but in his mind's eye he saw there the moonlight glinting up the water, and canoes gliding silently, and heard the merry voices of scouts diving from the springboard at its edge.
The springboard had been put in place at the lake's edge, too, and a couple of freshly painted rowboats were bobbing at the float, looking spick and glossy in the dying sunlight.
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