TWENTY PARSONS IN A FIX.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1071, 3 January 1872, Page 3

TWENTY PARSONS IN A FIX.

The following story, which is evidently of American origin, has been going the round of the English press : — k Out in Ohio, recently, twenty Baptist clergymen, who were attending a convenKjon, went down to a secluded spot on the ■get bank in the afternoon for the purof taking a swim. This score of brethren removed their clothing, and placed it upon the railroad track close at hand because the grass was wet. They then entered the water and enjoyed themselves. Presently an express train came round the curve at the rate of 40 miles an hour, and before any of the swimmers could reach dry land, all of their nndershirts and socks and things were fluttering from the cowcatcher and speeding onward towards Kansas. It was painful for ithft sbrsthrenrrejcceedingly painful-^ because all the clothing that could be found, after a careful search, was a sun umbrella and a pair of eye-glasses. And they do say that 1 when those twenty marched home by the refulgent light of the moon that evening, in single file, and keeping elope together, the most, familiar acquaintance with the Zouave drill, on the part of the man at the head with the umbrella, still hardly sufficed to cover them completely. They said they felt conspicuous somehow;' and tne situation wasmade all the more embarrassing because night all the Dorcas societies, and the women's, rights conventions, and the pupils at the female boarding school, seemed to be prancing around the streets and running across the route of the parade.