BATHING ADVENTURE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2132, 3 November 1875, 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 Wauregan. Conn. Two gentlemen and their wives; pleasureseekers, concluded it would be a nice thing to bathe in the pure waters of the Quinebaugh Biver, and so all four drove out together 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 of Newport. Then all plunged in the water together and had any amount of fun. The water of the river .was cool, the trees cast a grateful shadow, »oft 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 seaside for them, and finally, tired of the sport, concluded to return to civilisation. One of the gentlemen went to get clothes from the carriage, and returned with a face blank and troubled. The horse and carriage were gone. The other gentleman joined in the search, but fruitlessly; no sigh or trace of the conveyance could be found anyrwhere. There was : but one alternative for the party in the premises. They must return to town in the abbreviated and unconventional custom of the bath ! 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 gentleman clad in too scant garments of peculiar cut are the sturdy'husbandmen of tha Quinebaugh region, and they turned outtoseethe pedestrains as they would 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 organized. 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 permit of any praise from them.