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Show FREAKS OP 3IOSKETS, Major Rogers had once accepted the invitation of a brother officer in a different dif-ferent part of the island to try a few days' hostilities against the elephants ot that neighborhood, and had arrived after a few days' sport to within a mile or two of the bungalow where his host and hostess were awaiting his arrival; when, passing by a delightful, cool-looking cool-looking river, he thought a plunge would be the most renovating luxury in existence; so a plunge he determin-etl determin-etl ,t0, .take sending on hia servants witn his guns, and an intimation that, in ten minutes he would be home to dinner. So, stripping and placing his things very carefully on a stone, he began to luxuriate tn the water. 1 He was a capital swimmer, and had swam to Bomo distance, when, to his horror and dismay, on looking to the placo whero ho had left his habiliments, habili-ments, he perceived a dozen monkeys overhauling his entire wardrobe; one was putting his legs through the sleeves of his shirt; another was cramming cram-ming his head into his trowscrs; a third trying to find if any treasure was concealed in his hoots, while the hat formed a source of wonderment wonder-ment and amusement to Borne two or three others, who wcro endeavoring to unravel iu mystery by ripping the linings and taking half a dozen bites out of tho brim. As soon as ho regained re-gained his nient:il equilibrium (for the thing was so ridiculous that it made him laugh heartily, notwithstanding hia disgust at seeing his garments turned to such "vile purpose") he made hnstii toward tho shore; but judge of his horror on seeing these "precious rascals" each catch up what he could lay hold of, and rattle off at full speed into the junnglo, not leaving poor Kogers even the vestigo of an article of ruiment to cover hiin-solf. hiin-solf. All ho heard was a glorious chattering, as they one by one disappeared, disap-peared, tho last one lugging off his shirt, which, being rather awkward to carry, was continually tripping it up by getting between its legs. Here was a pretty pickle for a Christian, under a broiling sun, and here he stayed until un-til the inmates of tho bungalow, beginning be-ginning to suspect some accident, came out in search and found poor Kogers sitting up to his neck in water, in a frame of mind "more easily imagined than described." Ex. |