BATHING ADVENTURE.

Dunstan Times, Issue 718, 21 January 1876, Page 3

BATHING ADVENTURE.

A rather amusing incident, says the New York Herald, and one decidedly embarrassing to four people, occurred the other day at Waurogan, Conn. Two gentleman and their wives, pleasure seekers, concluded it would bo a nice thing to batho in (he pure waters of the Quinebaugh River, and so all drove out, to the banks of the stream in a retired nook in the forest. The ladies retired to some natural dressing room in the shade, and the gentlemen to another, all emerging presently clad in bathing suits as gaudy as those of Long Branch or Newport. Then all plunged in the water together and had any amount of fun. The water cf the river was cool, the trees cast a grateful shadow, soft breezes played among the leaves, and the wildness of the scene made it all the more admirable. The bathers voted the placid Quinebaugh better than the sea side for them, and finally, tired of the sport, concluded to return to civilisation. One of the gentleman went to get clothes from the carriage, and returned with a face blank and troubled The horse and carriage wore gone The other gentleman joined in the starch, but fruitlessly; no sign or trace of the conveyance could be found anywhere There was but one alteiuative for the party in the premises. They must return to town in the abbreviated and unconventional custom of the batli ! It was bitter, but it was unavoidable, and the journey began at once. It was one continued ovation, so to speak. Not accustomed to ladies and gentlemen clad in too scant garments of peculiar cut ate the sturdy husbandmen of the Quinebaugh region, and they turned out to see the pedestrians as they wou'cl to see the biggest circus ever travelling. The ladies never had their dress attract such attention before, and still they were unhappy. The gentlemen could not, by any degree of -profanity, do justice to the occasion. The walk had an end finally, as all things must; the shame faced quartette came out garbed as other people, and then a thorough search for the missing horse and buggy was organised. The turn-out was found at last in the river, the horse drowned. It was merely such an accident as might Have 'been expected by careless people ; but it, has ruined the reputation of the Quinebaugh as a watering place. The memory of a day when they walked almost without adornment is too bitter with the bathers to admit of any piaise from them.