TWENTY PARSONS IN A FIX.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 204, 28 December 1871, Page 7

TWENTY PARSONS IN A FIX.

■Out in Ohio, recently, twenty Baniist clergymen, who were attending a convention, went down to a secluded J spot on the river bank in the after- | noon, for the purpose of taking a i swim. This score of brethren re noved their clothing, and placed it on the railroad track close 'at hand because the gras"s 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 dty land, all of their sock* and undershirts and things were fluttering from the cowcatcher, and speeding towards Kansas. It was painful for the brethren- -exceedingly painful — because all the clothing that could be found, after a careful search, was a sun umbrella and a pair of e'ye-glassee. And they do say that when those twenty marched home by the refulgent light of the moon that evening, in single file, and all keeping: close together, the most familiar acquiintance with t!ie 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 the situation was made all the more embarrassing' because that night all the Dorcas societies, and the women's rights conventions, and the pupils at the female boarding schools, seemed to be prancing around the streets and running across the route of the parade.