BATHING AMENITIES AT HENDERSON.

Observer, Volume 7, Issue 232, 21 February 1885, Page 3

BATHING AMENITIES AT HENDERSON.

The experience of iwo young Jadies at Henderson the other day was a one. It seems the schoolbo3 r s of the settlement are in the habit of going down stream, out of sight, at ■ftie mid-day recess, to indulge in abath. There is a handsome* and buxom young widow, and she has for an acquaintance a nice young school teacher^ and the two, one day lately, went to nave h bathe in the same creek, but higher Tip, near the school. They were just indulging in the cooling caresses of the stream, and displaying a more than judicious amount of inflated nightgown, when the whole school came' chattering and skylarking up the creek. Down popped the young females up to their necks in water. But the boys were not going to let them oft so easily. .They danced a war- dance on the bank, uttering the while wild yells of the " now we've got you" description. They also played high jinks with the ladies' most intricate garments, and altogether treated the affair in a most rcprehensibly inconsiderate manner. There the poor creatures sat, shivering and whimpering, and there they would be no doubt sitting yet, if the inexorable school bell had not recalled them to a stern sense of duty, and a perusal of the Royal Header. The tinkling of that bell is now sweetest music in the ears of those" unfortuuate females. ; "