Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-10
cAROLINE's WILD NIGHT

"Oh. wonderful!" Caroline said when at the family dinner table she was asked about what kind of time she had enjoyed on shef last week end visit. We did have the most per-
 fectly gorgeous tirne!''
 Tt couldn't have been much of a rest however" observed her mother,
 'It isn't o'clock yet and you have yawned three timesi What hour did you girls go to bed nights2"
 we just lived in the water" Car oline hastily offered. gracefully ignor- | ing the question. Tt was so hot, you know!s The reason my new bathing stockings are all worn out IS that somhow I lost my bathing slippers 1t must have been the time we went
 in at midnight"
 "Midnight!'' chorused her parents.
 s'Why. yes." said Caroline in mild surprise. Didn't you know the latest | thing is to go swimming at night? l thought every one knew it, but some
 people are so fussyl
 "Pll tell you about it. Mrs. Phil l lips woke up and found that we were not home from the pavilion dance and she was certain that the auto had tipped us over into a ditch. So she made MT. Phillips get up and dress and rouse the neighbors and whole lot of people went back down the road to the pavilion looking in the ditches for us.
 .tMr Greyman next door was bitten by snake he stepped cn and he was awfully mad about it, especially as they didn't find our mangled bodies in the weeds. Then the Baggots' cook said she had heard voices on the wa ter, and they all tore down to the lake and we weren't there, of course, because we had to take Isabel home
 That's where we were when they decided we had gone out in canoes and were drowned. Mrs. Phillips had mysteries and made them start drag ging the lake, and MT. Smith-the fat one-feH out of the rowboat when his hook caught in a log and he shouted out that he'd found us. He can't swim very well and it was deep out there. I guess they worked pretty hand to make him breathe again.
 'It was all the boys fault, anyhow It was so hot when we started home from the dance that they thought of so everybody had to sneak into the houses and get their bathing suits. We thought it would be unkind to wake up the older people and, besides they are so apt to he fussy and want to know why and what for and they bother so!
 ~They being in a hurry was why forgot take off my bracelet watch and my pearl beads. The watch has not gone since then, but issScan be fixed, can't it? Well, don't see why you got it fixed the time it was full of sand after the beach party and the time it fell over the stair rail, so don't see why a little bit, of water should ruin it sAnytow, it, never does keep good time, so maybe it's
 ''No, I didn't bring home my pearls. guess the string must have broken or something-I don't see why they can't string things so they won't break! If these beads had been strung on good string I'd never have lost them. so think it is very un- fair, mother, for you to say it's my fault! I guess Eve had them most a year and that's a pretty long time to have anything.
 There were ten of us went in swimming and we didn't swim much, so we played games in the water like crack the whip sAnd nEthe hei q Phillips, who is having her teeth strengthened was on the end and got cracked against the pier-and don't see why her mother Ghould have acted so make trip into Chicago so the den- tist could put the things back that got knocked off. Ethel nearly swa1- lowed some of the wires and screws and things and I should think her mother would have been glad she was not choked to death or something, in stead of being so cross about it. That wasn't half so bad, either, as Dolly Smith being swished clear un- der the pier when she was on the end and her bathing suit got caught on nail, and if Tom Greyman hadn't been a shark under water I guess she would have been there yet hanging on to the piling.
 "Why, of course it wasn't danger ous, mother-nobody expected to go under the pier at all! That was just an exception! If Mrs Phillips and the others hadn't fussed so 1t would have been all right!
 "Of course. after we took Isabel all the way home she asked us in and got something to eat in their kitchen. And her folks were hopping because we left the icebox doors open and all