The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-23
GIRLS DUCK A PEEPER.
Two Of Them Were bathing in the
Altogether.


From the New York sun.
Madge and Jennie Hackett. who live IN
New York. have been spending their vaca-
ton as the guests OF Miss Martha Rob
bins. al her fathers farm in Old Bridge,
a village about ten miles from New Bruins
wick. Young men with leisure are scare
IN that vicinity, and, the girls have hac
TO amuse themselves as best they might
with the aid OF Miss Sadie Hickman and
Miss Agnes Thayer, who live on adjOin
ing farms. Each Of the five girls is about
% years old.
Yesterday morning they held a confer
ence and debated the question of what
they should do 10 entertain themselves
during the day. It was Miss Hickman
who suggested that they should take a
swim in the brook.
That's splendid idea" said Miss Rob
bins, but what viii we do for bathing
suits?"
"Oh. we can dig up something. any
thing will do. I can take you TO a place
where the swimming is grand and nobody
would ever come near US There's thick
hedge right down to the edge Of the
bridge"
Upon this assurance the five girls
started for the brook, and five minutes
I after they had reached the bank there
were five splashes and they were enjoy
ing the GOODNESS of the water.
Having got them safely in the water.
the reporter may now safely disclose
the fact that two of them had decided at
the last moment to dispense with bathing
suits altogether. The attire of the other
! three was not so complete as the regu,
lauons at Asbury Park prescribe, but al
of the girls felt perfectly safe in their
remOteness from any roads or houses.
They dived and ducked and splashed
each other to their hearts content, and
at length, in sheer excess Of enjoyment.
! they began singing in the water. This
performance came to a sudden stop as the
eyes of Miss Hickman were seen to be
fixed in mute horror upon a point in the
hedge along the bank. AS the sound OF
the girls voices died away there was a
rustling in the hedge, then crash, and a
man fell out upon the edge of the stream.
OH cried Miss Hickman.
''Oh, ohr' calculated Miss Robbins.
"O-o-o-o-h? shrieked the other three In
chorus.
The two whose interest in this turn OF
| affairs was most acute, and whose iden-
| tity shall not be disclosed in this story,
tried to get as far down into the water
as possible without getting their heads
under.
The man in the meantime had scrambled
/ to his Feet and stood gazing intently at
the shells, which could plainly be seen
| at the bottom of the clear stream.
| Whether he had followed the girls or had
been attracted by their singing is not
! known, but he had crawled up to a con-
venient place behind the hedge, leaned for
| ward, lost his balance, and fallen through.
| He was recognized by Miss Hickman -
| her fathers farm hand, Samuel G.. Bud
| long.
sam" she screamed, "go away from
here this minutei What do you mean by
standing there? Go away, tell you"
Sans only response was a comprehen-
sive grin.
| 1t was a time for prompt and heroic
| measures. The five girls got as far away
from the bank as possible, and held a wills
pered consultation. Then there was a sud-
den and unexpected movement upon the
enemy. The three girls, who were not en-
tirely unincumbered, made a dash for the
bank. Sam said that they were after him,
and started to run, but he stumbled and
| fell, and before he could rise the three
girls had pounced upon him. They push
! ed pulled, and dragged him to the bank
at a little distance from the point where
the other girls were, and, in spite of his
| protestations, they took him into deep
water and held his head under long enough
| for the other girls to get out of the water
| and behind the hedge. Then they gave
Sam a breather, but before he could get
the water out Of his eyes down went his
| head again.
"A-gr-r-bb-bP' he remarked as he
went under but no attention was paid
| to this suggestion
He was kept under water, with brief in
/ tervals for breath, until the girls had re-
sumed their clothes. Then the three let
him go, and he pan off dripping water by
/ the bucketful When he got to Farmer
| Hickmans house he went in to change his
| clothes. A couple of minutes later the
girls began to arrive, and they told Hick-
man what had happened.
Hickman went on the war path for Bud
| long. He burst into his room, and, grab
! bling him, ran him down stairs, half cloth
! ed as he was, and kicked him out of the
| house. There is a vacancy now for a
discreet farm hand on Mr.. Hickman's
/ farm