to eat the right kind of food, and this food will get into
your blood and keep your muscles firm and strong.

[Illustration: SPLENDID EXERCISE FOR LUNGS AND MUSCLES]

II. ACCIDENTS

I am going to tell you what to do in the case of some of the little
accidents that may happen to anyone, and especially of the kind that
children meet with in playing; but I don't want you to stop playing
for fear you'll be hurt. Mother Nature can usually heal all the bumps
and cuts and scratches that come from wholesome play.

You can, however, help her very much by keeping the _scratch_ or _cut
perfectly clean_. This is the chief thing to remember. Wash it
thoroughly in clean water. Hold it under the pump, or faucet, and let
the water pour down on it.

If you can, pour some _antiseptic_, or germ killer, over the cut, and
wrap it up in a clean cloth. There is a medicine called _peroxid of
hydrogen_, which is good for cuts and wounds, but an older person will
have to put it on for you.

If the scratch is from a finger nail or the claw of a cat, or if the
wound is the bite of some animal, you must be sure to have your mother
or a doctor clean the wound with strong medicine. You see, nails and
claws and teeth are, as a rule, dirty, and have on them germs that
will get into the cut and make it swell and be very sore indeed.

[Illustration: THE TIGHT BANDAGE HIGHER THAN THE CUT]

Sometime you may have a cut that is deep. You will see the bright red
blood spurt from it. This means that you have cut one of the blood
pipes called arteries. If the cut is on the arm or the leg, you should
take a cloth or bandage and tie it tightly around the arm or leg
_above_ the cut; and if that does not check the blood, put a piece of
stick under the cloth and twist the stick, as in the picture. For a
cut like this you must get help as soon as possible, and keep quiet,
or else you will increase the flow of blood.

If you get anything in your eye, be sure not to rub the eye; don't
even wink hard if you can help it. You will only make the pain worse,
because you will scratch the eyeball. Let some one take out the bit of
dust or the cinder or the fly, or whatever it is, as quickly as
possible. Often, if you close the lids gently and hold them so, the
tears will wash the speck down for you.

If you should bruise yourself, the best way to treat the bruise is to
pour either quite cold or quite warm water over it, and keep this up
for several minut