TOO MUCH OF A BATH.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2443, 6 March 1909, Page 11 (Supplement)

TOO MUCH OF A BATH.

(By Max Adder'.)

During the summer they take boarders out at Doctor Jones’, and among them are Messrs Tyson and Botts, two young men; who are engaged in business in the city. One day last July, after supper, Tyson and Botts went down to the creek to take a swim. As soon as they left the house, two or three of tlie other fellows suggested that it would be a good joke for two of them to dress in women’s clothes and go over and scare Tyson and Botts. So several of them borrowed some skirts, and hats, and other female fixings, and, after assuming them, started toward the creek; The two swimmers saw them coming and began to paddle up-stream to .get' out of their way. The female figures came nearer, and took seats on the bank of tho stream, so close to the clothes of tho swimmers that there was no chance at all for Tyson and Botts to sneak out and dress themselves hurriedly. And the women sat there in the most aggravating manner, while Tyson and Botts stayed in the water shivering.

Prseently they got up to go, the swimmers thought; but, to the horror of the latter, they perceived the women get into a boat and begin to paddle up-stream. They went very slowly, and so Tyson and Botts had time enough to swim farther lip in order to get out of the way. . The boat followed them up for about a mile, and then Tyson concluded to do something to explain the situation to the ladies. Ho was beginning to feel sick. > Accordingly, he shouted at tlie top of his voice, and Botts shouted, but those idiotio women still continued to pull up stream. The swimmers were pretty near crazy, and 'at last they made a dash for tlio bank and hid behind the bushes. Then the women 'in the boat turned round and began to row down the stream. Botts and Tyson got-.in tho water again and swam-after the boat. Tlio women landed closo by their clothes, and, to the amazement of the swimmers, picked them. up and began to walk, off With them. Then Tyson and Botts became excited, and swam in close to

the shoro to shout at tho. women, and then tho women began to laugh, and tho victims of tho joke saw just how it , . . was. -

When they emerged from the water they didn’t join in the merriment. They seemed gloomy and sad, and as soon as Botts got his shirt on he went up to Peters and shook his list under his nose, and said: “You red-headed idiot, I’ve a notion to bang the liver out of you ! Oh, you may laugh, but if you ever try any of your jokes on me again I’ll murder you! Now, you mind me.” Tyson and Botts will board elsewhere next summer.