A SHOCKING REVELATION.
In London a short time ago a young lady the belle of her neighborhood, and renowned for her charming figure and exquisite taste in dress, hue also for her grace and skill as a skater, was facinating a host of admirers and maddening with jealousy a host of rivals 'by her feats upon the ice, when she suddenly stumbled and fell. A score of chivalrous gallants sped to her rescue, but before one of them could reach her she had regained her feet. . She was wearing a Canadian skating costume. It unfortunately happened in this case that in endeavoring to save herself the lady ripped her stocking with the point of her skate. She was not however, aware of the mishap, and glided away from her rescuers with her usual graceful rapidity. As she sped along in conscious triumph, a strange sound reached her ears, ominously like suppressed laughter. She cast a quick glance back, and it may be imagined her feelings when she saw her course was marked by a long trail of sawdust. The shapely limb to which the stocking belonged was fast losing its symmetry, and the secret of its shapliness stood revealed.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2186, 20 March 1880, Page 3
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199A SHOCKING REVELATION. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2186, 20 March 1880, Page 3
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