Chapter II: ACCIDENTS. 1. When you hear the word accident, what do you think

of? What have you to help you to prevent accidents? If you have used your "look-out department" as well as you can, and still the accident happens, what will you do then? 2. Show the class how to care for a very deep cut. What do we call a medicine that kills disease germs? 3. How would you treat a bruise? A burn? Frost-bitten ears? Chilblains? A bee sting? 4. If you are told to take some medicine from a certain bottle or box, do you always look at the label? Why is it dangerous not to? What do you think of having medicines about not labeled or poured into old bottles with wrong labels? 5. If you should happen to swallow something poisonous, what ought you to do right away? 6. Suppose your clothes or your hair should catch fire; what would you do? 7. How did you celebrate last Fourth of July? Write a short story about the picture on p. 144. 8. With one of your classmates, show how you would try to restore a person who had just been saved from drowning. How can you try to save yourself if you fall into the water?