Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-10
MRS. WOODBURY'S pREJUDICES

bathhouses would ne dirty, but there was no such fault to find. Mine was as clean as a whistle, and Carrie said the same thing about hers.
 We'll Carrie was ready about as soon @s I was. and we joined hands and scampered down the beach l had to wait a moment before I went in, though, anxious as was for a dip, for the view was 30 perfectly lovely that I couldn't afford to miss it. There was the beach. all dotted with people in red and blue and black bathing suits, some with modest little bathing caps, others with gafly colored bandannas wound about their heads. At the back was a fringe of willow trees. In front was Cushing's Island, with its dark grove of pine trees stretching down to the shore on one side, its cluster of cottages on the other, and the Ottawa house mounting guard like a huge yellow sentinel over it all. To the left were the buildings of Fort Preble, a dark, Sombre red against the green
 background of the trees, and just be- yond was Spring Point light, it's tower sharply outlined against the afternoon sky, and everywhere was the water. dancing and w1nking and twinkling,
 and beckoning the bathers into it's cool i depths Everybody was having such | fun, There were children building cas-
 ties in the sand, sfloveling up pails full with their wee toy shovels, throwing | it into each others eyes, and digging
 wells in the sand to see the water rush
 in and fill them up.
 There was one little tow-haired fel- l low, a scant two feet and a half high, who didn't have on bathing suit, but
 was wearing a g1ngham blouse and
 khaki trousers.
 The other boys and girls were teas-
 ing him to come in, were throwing wa
 ter over him, and taunting him because
 he couldn't join them in the fun; but
 they didn't taunt him long, for pres
 ently, with a joyous whoop, he rushed in, clothes and all, and was soon the l1veliest one in the group.
 Half a dozen other children were
 having the time of their lives playing
 in an old punt that was moored some
 distance out.
 From the lisptng talk of the young
 est baby gleaned the information that
 it was their 'Tbig teamer," and that they were going "way atwoss the wa
 ter, ever so far" As they were pad
 ding with a tin dish cover and a
 broken shovel, however. I didn't have
 high hopes of their bringing their voy-
 age to a satisfactory conclusion
 But had looked long enough. fell
 that 1t was my turn for bathing now
 l seized Carries hand and with a
 whoop and splash we were in.
 Was the water cool? Why, after the hot week we had had just to be in il was like paradise. For once in my life ) l didn't stop to shiver and shake, ant
 run in and out again in my reluctance to duck. I went in all over the very 1 1r1, The sand was so smooth that there was no danger of its hurting one. . feet; an we found that we could wad, ' out and out and out without being car. , ried off our feet, the beach was st ) level
 Neither of us had bothered with bath l ing caps, but for all that we didn' } hesitate to splash water over each oth 2 CT until there wasn't spot of hai as large as ten cent piece that wasn' l soaked. Care? Of course we didn't care , We were cool, cool, cool for the frs 5 time that week.
 ] We stayed in a positively disgracefu length of time, until nearly all the oth l CT bathers were tired out And then 3 what do you suppose we did? We cam out into that hot sand and lay dow , and dug our toes into it, and ran i ] though our fingers, and rolled over il ; 1t until we were baked, just for tn s privilege of jumping into the wate t and getting cool all over again. T Yes, of course, we sunburned 6 vince every time any one touches m d arms, and the back of my neck has 6 livid V on 1t that prevents my wear d ing a low neck gown. But, myl It wa n worth it. And if anyone mention e Willard Beach again to me, if Pm 6 hundred miies away I'll find some wa y to get there, just the same.
 e BAIkSAM FIR