Photograph by Paul Thompson 



Till} SCISSORS DIVE 



Every Roman girl was a Kellermann, from "Martial's description of water games and 

 fetes, wherein maidens would "sport in a chariot like that of the tallied nereids and group 

 themselves in the most varied designs"; and diving was an essential industry among the 

 Syrians, who went out in fleets to dive for sponges, as do the old salts of Gloucester, Mass., 

 to fish. 



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