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Then it was that there happened the most terrible thing, and even now I shudder to think how narrow was our escape! | Then it was that there happened the most terrible thing, and even now I shudder to think how narrow was our escape! | ||
- | We bad doffed our skirts, and skipped joyfully over the sands clad only in dark gym bloomers - shoes and stockings, long-sleeved blouses and hats as well; of course. The skirts were parked behind a convenient sandhill. | + | We had doffed our skirts, and skipped joyfully over the sands clad only in dark gym bloomers - shoes and stockings, long-sleeved blouses and hats as well; of course. The skirts were parked behind a convenient sandhill. |
We spend a delightful afternoon, but when we returned - horrors! The skirts had gone! Of merciful Providence, were there ever four maids in such a ghastly position? Esther, it is true, had on military breeks, but even she turned ten shades of green at the thought of going home without a skirt. She got considerably more radical in her later years, but she was only pale pink then, and to go home in breeches - - - - (the dashes illustrate the horror no words can express). | We spend a delightful afternoon, but when we returned - horrors! The skirts had gone! Of merciful Providence, were there ever four maids in such a ghastly position? Esther, it is true, had on military breeks, but even she turned ten shades of green at the thought of going home without a skirt. She got considerably more radical in her later years, but she was only pale pink then, and to go home in breeches - - - - (the dashes illustrate the horror no words can express). |
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