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"Mudlarking" is a new seaside sport gaining extraordinary popularity at Weston-Super-Mare, Somersetshire, though still in its infancy as yet. Young people may be'seen running across the shingle and cliving iritothe mud. No one flounders; everyone, is graceful (states an English writer). l\ This .is the formula. You choose a nice oozy area, of mudj you take a little run and then dive like a.swallow. If yoUiare lucky you will glide. .If you aren 't— '•
you just flounder. It's all in the game. Mud-larking is a "mixed" sport. You can't,- in fact, distinguish the sexes, everyone becombs so plastered with piud. Girls arr taking to the mud mainly because it is good for the;complexion; nicn because it-is, invigorating. Mudbathing is. very health-giving, a medical man says,, as the sort of mud you get here contains iodine and ether tonic agents. It will be a good thing if the sport catches on-elsewhere.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 82, 3 October 1931, Page 9
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152What Next? Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 82, 3 October 1931, Page 9
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