Stephen arrived at the pool the morning
with the other students. He was looking forward to learning to swim.
The teacher arrived a minute later, and commanded those
who could not swim to go into group, those who
could swim but not dive properly to go into second
group, and
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those who could both swim and dive will to go into a third
Stephen went into the second group.
The teacher then told the students in the second group to go
down the steps into the swimming pool one by one and
to the other end. The first two obeyed, and neither of them had
any trouble in swimming to the other end, Stephen was the third in
the line. He
down the steps, but as soon as he
began to swim, he sank under the water.
When he did not come up again, the alarmed teacher jumped
in and im out while the other students cheered.
Then the teacher said to Stephen, "Why ever didn't you join the
group that can't swim
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"Because I'd never even bathed
before," Stephen answered, "so I didn't know whether l could swim
or not."