Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-03
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cause we were early. not having gone
 to the Casino first as the others had,
 and it was a relief to find tAem, or
 it was, until had a great shock
 Instead of the men being away at
 separate beach of their own, they
 were put with us, and kept popping
 out of boxes every minute, and run
 ming up to talk to the girls they knew.
 just as calmly as if they were in even-
 ing dress. My eyes almost came out
 of my head for an instant Then
 just swallowed hard and leaped over
 about five centuries of prejudice as if
 I were jumping across tiny beck.
 "Everything's a matter of custom"
 said l to myself, and in another min
 ute I was racing gayly down to the
 water, hand in hand with Sally, as if we had been little girls with sand pails and shovels.
 1 expected to feel as if l had plunged into million gallon bath of iced water, when got out among the creamy breakers, but, judging from the sensation, Americans have had their part of the Atlantic beautifully
 warmed from underneath with some
 patent heating apparatus. It would be just like them.
 The sandy beach is so level you can batter out ever so far until you finally have to bob up and down for the roll ing waves as if they were royalties.
 l can swim little, and Potter took me beyond the breakers. It was great fun under that arch of turquoise sky, with the sun dancing on the clear green water as if the millionaires of Newport had been sprinkling gold pieces. But the best of all was the floating platform about hundred yards from the beach, where we sat and let the emeralds and pearls spray oyer us.
 At home when you are at the sea your governess or some other person who thinks enjoyment ought to be measured off by rule sits on the shore looking at her watch, and when you have been in exactly twenty minutes she tells you to come out directly or you will catch a chill. Eve always wondered what it would do to you if you stopped in for twenty-one min. utes, though I never had the chance to try, but in America all that is quite as different as the very way they say seaside" with their accent on the first instead of the last syllable.
 Nobody thinks about watches. You just bathe and bathe as long as you feel like it. When you are tired of 1t you come out. Then you bake your- self in the sand for little while if you like and run back to begin over again. It is heavenly No other ad- iective half expresses it.
 When we did really make up our minds to stop out for good and had dressed ourselves. feeling like god 1esses just born of the foam Cor gods, as the case might bel, we all met-our party. the Pitchleys and my cousin to arrange about what Mohunsleigh would do.
 It seemed that Mrs. Pitchley had in- Fited him to lunch, and as she had been 50 kind about the bathhouse he ex- Dlained to Potter he thought that he couldn't very well refuse About stop ping on he would decide later, but he to drive with US in the afternoon in motor car of Potter's hat holds six. By that time he would have had time to send a wire to a friend of his in New York and to make up his mind what he had better 10 about going back.
 When we got home we found Mrs. | Ess Kay much better and up. She was inclined at first to be cross with | Sally and Potter for taking me to the l beach, but when she heard about 1 she forgot to be vexed, md seemed almost excited about him. [ cant think why. .-
 She asked lots of questions. very | quickly, one after the other. brighten | ng up when Potter told how he had | invited Mohunsleigh to come to the | doorings, but looking quite strained md wild at the news about his lunch | ng with the Pitchleys.
 "You oughtn't to have let him go. 'otter,' she said.
 Potter shrugged his shoulders-those quare American shoulders of his Strange as it may seem to you, he wanted to- That settled 1t I didn't | monkey with the gunpowder."
 Mrs. Ess Rays lips went down at | he corners and her eyes flashed.